Anthropology Mid-exam – University of Gondar

Part I. Say ‘True’ if the Statement is Correct and ‘False” if the Statement is Incorrect

1. Organic, environmental or animal remains can be considered as ecofacts.

2. Anthropologist are merely interested in the study of far away and exotic communities living isolated from the influences of modernization.

3. Culture is not culture unless it is shared.

4. Culture is a complex whole that consists everything other than our belief system.

Part II. Match the Items in Column ‘A’ with Items in Column ‘B’

Column A

1. Ethnography

2. Monogamy

3. Ethnology

4. Affinal Kinship

5. Consanguineous

Column B            

A. One to one marriage

B. Levirate and Sororate

C. Relationship based on blood ties

D. Comparative/Cross-cultural

E. Relationship based on marriage

F. Descriptive approach

Part III. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives

1. Which one of the following is NOT TRUE about Anthropology?

A. It is the science of humankind or humanity
B. It explains how and why people are both similar and different
C. It studies only contemporary human societies and cultures
D. It examines our biological and cultural past

2. Which one of the following statements is FALSE about archaeology?

A. Archaeology study past material objects to trace the development of human physical characteristics
B. Archaeology investigates material remains left by past humans with the aim of ordering and describing the events
C. Archaeology emphasizes on the relationship between the material remains and the behaviors of the makers in the past
D. Archaeology examines artefacts, ecofacts and features together to understand human cultural living in the past

3. Which one of the following is important in fighting against ethnocentrism?

A. Relinquish your own culture and embrace other people cultural elements
B. Assimilate into someone else’s culture and abandon one own tradition
C. Give up the assumption that your ethnicity and culture are superior to all others
D. Dictating one’s own culture is correct and other cultures are derived from it

4. The local political leader must use a native language to earn people’s allegiance. Such kind of description according to linguistic anthropology refers to

A. Historical linguistic
B. Sociolinguistics
C. Structural linguistics
D. Applied linguistic

5. Which of the following is CORRECTLY matched?

A. Sister-in-law — Fictive kinship
B. God parents — Affinal kinship
C. Grandparents — Consanguineal kinship
D. Aunts — Fictive kinship

6. Which one of the following is not among the unique features of Anthropology?

A. Broad scope
B. Judgmental perspective
C. Holistic approach
D. Insiders’ perspective

7. Which characteristic of culture can bring negative effects to human being?

A. Culture is adaptive
B. Culture is maladaptive
C. Culture is dynamic
D. Culture is integrated

8. Respect for cultural differences involves all of the following, EXCEPT

A. Knowing that a person’s own culture is only one among many
B. Appreciating cultural diversity
C. Judging others’ cultures in terms of one’s own values and customs
D. Trying to understand every culture in terms of its own context 

9. Which of the following is NOT the feature of ethnography?

A. Provides a comprehensive account of a particular community.
B. Engage in extensive fieldwork.
C. Make cross-cultural comparison.
D. Stay in fields for a prolonged period of time.

10. A dialectical difference of Amharic language spoken in Goijam and Wollo is studied by

A. Ethno-linguistics
B. Historical linguistics
C. Structural linguistics
D. Socio-linguistics

11. Which one of the following statements is FALSE about archaeology?

A. Archaeology study past material objects to trace the development of human physical characteristics.  
B. Archaeology investigates material remains left by past humans with the aim of ordering and describing the events.
C. Archaeology emphasizes on the relationship between the material remains and the behaviors of the makers in the past
D. Archaeology examines artefacts, ecofacts, and features together to understand human cultural living in the past.

Part IV. Fill in the blank space with the appropriate word or phrase 

1. The belief that one’s own way of life is superior to others cultural, social and material life is referred as _____

2. Prohibition of mating with one’s close relatives is known as ____

3. _____ is he process by which people learn the requirement of their surrounding culture and acquire values and behavior appropriate in that culture.

4. _____ is an anthropological approach which is looking for connections and tries to understand parts in context of the whole.

5. _____ are cultural traits common across all cultures.