Chapter Test Form a Cultural Diversity

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CHAPTER 2 Chapter Test Form A Cultural Diversity

REVIEWING FACTS (3 points each) In the space provided, write the letter of the name or term that identifies each description. Choose your answers from the list below. There are two extra names or terms on the list. ______1. written rule of conduct enacted and enforced by a. material culture the government b. George Murdock ______2. anthropologist who studied the Yanomamö c. Margaret Mead d. symbol ______3. features common to all societies e. mores ______4. group that rejects the values, norms, and f. counterculture practices of the larger society g. culture traits ______5. examples include beliefs, ideas, and rules h. law

______6. anything that stands for something else and has a i. nonmaterial culture shared meaning attached j. Napoleon Chagnon to it k. cultural universals ______7. all the shared products of human groups l. culture

______8. anthropologist who compiled a list of more than 60 cultural universals

______9. examples include clothing, buildings, and automobiles

______10. norms that have great moral significance attached to them

UNDERSTANDING IDEAS (3 points each) For each of the following, write the letter of the best choice in the space provided.

______1. The combination of a number ______2. A group of mutually interde- of culture complexes into an pendent people who have interrelated whole is a organized in such a way as to a. subculture. share a common culture and b. culture pattern. feeling of unity is a(n) c. culture trait. a. artifact. d. cultural universal. b. subculture. c. society. d. counterculture.

Chapter 2, Chapter Test Form A, continued

______3. The organization of written or ______7. Cultural relativism is the belief spoken symbols into a that standardized system is called a. morally significant norms a. cultural relativism. should be enforced by the b. symbolic interaction. government. c. mores. b. temperament is the result d. language. of cultural rather than biological factors. ______4. Prohibitions against killing c. cultures should be judged people and stealing other by their own standards. people’s property are d. the values, norms, and examples of practices of the larger a. mores. society should be rejected. b. culture complexes. c. artifacts. ______8. Folkways are d. folkways. a. written or spoken symbols. b. the physical objects of ______5. Shared beliefs about what is material culture. good or bad, right or wrong, c. the common customs of desirable or undesirable are everyday life. called d. written rules of conduct a. folkways. enacted and enforced by b. norms. the government. c. mores. d. values. ______9. Which of the following groups is the best example of a ______6. A cluster of interrelated counterculture? culture traits is a a. the Amish a. culture complex. b. soldiers on a military base b. society. c. neo-Nazis c. cultural universal. d. Native Americans d. culture pattern. ______10. Warfare is to the Yanomamö as cooperation is to the a. Mundugumor. b. Nacirema. c. the Mor-Ayz. d. the Arapesh.