AUBURN ANTHROPOLOGY MODULE 1-7
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2026
Culture is:
a. learned
b. shared
c. symbolic
d. all of these - ANS d. all of these
The AAA's Code of Ethics:
a. is the result of a UN resolution designed to ensure that human rights are respected in the
field of U.S. anthropology
b. is too broad for most anthropologists to find it useful
c. applies differently to the different types of anthropology
d. is designed to ensure that all anthropologists are aware of their obligations to the field of
anthropology, the host communities that allow them to conduct their research, and society in
general - ANS d. is designed to ensure that all anthropologists are aware of their obligations
to the field of anthropology, the host communities that allow them to conduct their research,
and society in general
Understanding another culture sympathetically enough so that it appears to be a coherent and
meaningful design for living is called:
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,a. cultural interactionism
b. cultual relativism
c. holism
d. cultural determinism - ANS b. cultural relativism
Cultural relativism:
a. requires us to abandon the values our own culture has taught us
b. make it possible for us to prove the way a peoples culture makes them do this is wrong
whether they like it or not
c. requires us to take many things into account before we form opinions about other cultural
practices
d. frees us from having to face the choices between alternatives whose "rightness" and
"wrongness" is less than clear-cut - ANS c. requires us to take many things into account
before we form opinions about other cultural practices
Which of the following was first defined as "a learned, shared way of life that includes
technology, values, beliefs, symbols, and norms transmitted within a particular group from
generation to generation"?:
a. ritual
b. society
c. culture
d. identity
e. race - ANS c. culture
Applied anthropologists practice:
a. in the field of cultural anthropology
b. in the field of ethnology
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, c. in the field of archaeology
d. in all subfields of anthropology - ANS d. in all subfields of anthropology
The opinion that ones own way of life is natural or correct and the true way of being fully
human is called:
a. cultural relativism
b. cultural determinism
c. ethnocentrism
d. egocentrism - ANS c. ethnocentrism
Which of the following statements about culture is false:
a. it is transmitted genetically
b. it has evolutionary basis
c. it is acquired by all humans, as members of society through enculturation
d. it encompasses rule-governed, shared, symbol-based, learned behavior as well as beliefs
transmitted across generations
e. everyone is cultured - ANS a. it is transmitted genetically
Which of the following is a mechanism of cultural change:
a. diffusion
b. generational enculturation
c. particularity
d. cultural relativism
e. ethnocentrism - ANS a. diffusion
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EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+ 2026
Culture is:
a. learned
b. shared
c. symbolic
d. all of these - ANS d. all of these
The AAA's Code of Ethics:
a. is the result of a UN resolution designed to ensure that human rights are respected in the
field of U.S. anthropology
b. is too broad for most anthropologists to find it useful
c. applies differently to the different types of anthropology
d. is designed to ensure that all anthropologists are aware of their obligations to the field of
anthropology, the host communities that allow them to conduct their research, and society in
general - ANS d. is designed to ensure that all anthropologists are aware of their obligations
to the field of anthropology, the host communities that allow them to conduct their research,
and society in general
Understanding another culture sympathetically enough so that it appears to be a coherent and
meaningful design for living is called:
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,a. cultural interactionism
b. cultual relativism
c. holism
d. cultural determinism - ANS b. cultural relativism
Cultural relativism:
a. requires us to abandon the values our own culture has taught us
b. make it possible for us to prove the way a peoples culture makes them do this is wrong
whether they like it or not
c. requires us to take many things into account before we form opinions about other cultural
practices
d. frees us from having to face the choices between alternatives whose "rightness" and
"wrongness" is less than clear-cut - ANS c. requires us to take many things into account
before we form opinions about other cultural practices
Which of the following was first defined as "a learned, shared way of life that includes
technology, values, beliefs, symbols, and norms transmitted within a particular group from
generation to generation"?:
a. ritual
b. society
c. culture
d. identity
e. race - ANS c. culture
Applied anthropologists practice:
a. in the field of cultural anthropology
b. in the field of ethnology
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, c. in the field of archaeology
d. in all subfields of anthropology - ANS d. in all subfields of anthropology
The opinion that ones own way of life is natural or correct and the true way of being fully
human is called:
a. cultural relativism
b. cultural determinism
c. ethnocentrism
d. egocentrism - ANS c. ethnocentrism
Which of the following statements about culture is false:
a. it is transmitted genetically
b. it has evolutionary basis
c. it is acquired by all humans, as members of society through enculturation
d. it encompasses rule-governed, shared, symbol-based, learned behavior as well as beliefs
transmitted across generations
e. everyone is cultured - ANS a. it is transmitted genetically
Which of the following is a mechanism of cultural change:
a. diffusion
b. generational enculturation
c. particularity
d. cultural relativism
e. ethnocentrism - ANS a. diffusion
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