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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
According to anthropologists diffusion is direct when two cultures trade, intermarry or wage war on one another is called |
| A. | Indirect diffusion |
| B. | Direct diffusion |
| C. | Forced diffusion |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. Forced diffusion | |
| 2. |
Sovereignty is an essential attribute of which |
| A. | State |
| B. | Society |
| C. | Government |
| D. | Parliament |
| Answer» B. Society | |
| 3. |
According to anthropologists there are different healing ways in religion which is called |
| A. | Totem |
| B. | Shaman |
| C. | Religious scholar |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Religious scholar | |
| 4. |
According to anthropologists belief in souls or doubles is called |
| A. | Shaman |
| B. | Animism |
| C. | Magic |
| D. | Mana |
| Answer» C. Magic | |
| 5. |
The moon and star symbol represents what religion? |
| A. | Christianity |
| B. | Hinduism |
| C. | Islam |
| D. | Judaism |
| Answer» D. Judaism | |
| 6. |
In anthropological concept to marry someone similar, as when members of the same social class inter marry are called |
| A. | Homo erectus |
| B. | Endogamy |
| C. | Homogamy |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 7. |
According to anthropologists in tribes society the village head man is called |
| A. | King |
| B. | Boss |
| C. | Big-man |
| D. | Head of the family |
| Answer» D. Head of the family | |
| 8. |
The roots in the society can be political, economic, religious, linguistic, cultural or racial is called |
| A. | Ethnic |
| B. | Ethnic group |
| C. | Ethnic individuals |
| D. | Ethnic conflicts |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
Anthropologists said that kin relation and kinship systems are called |
| A. | Family |
| B. | Social group |
| C. | Community |
| D. | Tribe |
| Answer» B. Social group | |
| 10. |
Which of the following religions believe in Karma? |
| A. | Hinduism |
| B. | Buddhism |
| C. | Both of the above |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 11. |
There are no official clergy in Islam, but people who lead prayers at a mosque are called |
| A. | Imams |
| B. | Rabbis |
| C. | Priests |
| D. | Monks |
| Answer» B. Rabbis | |
| 12. |
The predominant religion in India is |
| A. | Islam--Sunni |
| B. | Buddhism |
| C. | Judaism |
| D. | Hinduism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 13. |
The term sovereignty is |
| A. | Supranus |
| B. | Supreme Court |
| C. | Sovietnt |
| D. | State |
| Answer» B. Supreme Court | |
| 14. |
In religion the use of supernatural techniques to accomplish specific aims is called |
| A. | Magic |
| B. | Sprits |
| C. | Mana |
| D. | Totem |
| Answer» B. Sprits | |
| 15. |
Who's view is this? that we know for thousands of years, bands and tribes have done a reasonable job of taking care of themselves |
| A. | Archaeologists |
| B. | Anthropology |
| C. | Sociology |
| D. | History |
| Answer» C. Sociology | |
| 16. |
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the "emissions trading" policy instrument? |
| A. | It involves a mechanism whereby the permits available are initially distributed to producers who ar |
| B. | The price mechanism for tradable emissions permits helps to allocate the restricted supply of permit |
| C. | All producers are required to be equally efficient in reducing emissions of the pollutant |
| D. | The right to pollute can be transferred between different parties at a price determined by the marke |
| Answer» D. The right to pollute can be transferred between different parties at a price determined by the marke | |
| 17. |
Which one of the following characteristics is widely regarded as being an important aspect of sustainable development? |
| A. | Inter-generational equity |
| B. | Increasing consumption expenditure |
| C. | Intra-generational inequity |
| D. | Increased levels of saving |
| Answer» B. Increasing consumption expenditure | |
| 18. |
Why is transport one of the most intractable factors in considering the global environmental problem? |
| A. | Our transport capabilities worldwide have not expanded fast enough for us to cope with the consequen |
| B. | Transport demand grows faster than possible technological improvements can reduce the output of gree |
| C. | Reducing the growth of the transport sector will hold back economic growth, and hence reduce the re |
| D. | World oil refinery capacity has failed to expand in line with the demand for internal combustion fu |
| Answer» C. Reducing the growth of the transport sector will hold back economic growth, and hence reduce the re | |
| 19. |
In kinship anthropology lineages or clans are called |
| A. | Descent groups |
| B. | consanguinity |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 20. |
According to anthropologists the development and environment of the country like multinational company based on |
| A. | state |
| B. | Core |
| C. | Government |
| D. | City |
| Answer» C. Government | |
| 21. |
People who automatically joins from father side from long term is called |
| A. | Matrilineal |
| B. | Patrilineal |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. both a and b | |
| 22. |
Conflicts between government and native often arise when ? |
| A. | When outsiders took their house |
| B. | When outside fight them |
| C. | When outside interests their resources on tribal land |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 23. |
People who joins from mother group is called |
| A. | Patrilineal |
| B. | Matrilineal |
| C. | Patrilocal |
| D. | Matrilocal |
| Answer» C. Patrilocal | |
| 24. |
A permanent social unit whose members say they have ancestors in common is called |
| A. | Kin group |
| B. | Descent group |
| C. | Clans |
| D. | Lineages |
| Answer» C. Clans | |
| 25. |
Both matrilineal and patrilineal descent groups are a type of |
| A. | Urilocal descent groups |
| B. | Verilocal descent groups |
| C. | Unilineal descent groups |
| D. | Ambilocal |
| Answer» D. Ambilocal | |
| 26. |
A group of people sharing some common demographic experience is called |
| A. | cohabitation |
| B. | cohort |
| C. | Enemy |
| D. | Band |
| Answer» B. cohort | |
| 27. |
In anthropology the descent groups frequently are |
| A. | Indogmous |
| B. | Exogamous |
| C. | Family marriage |
| D. | both b and c |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
Anthropologists said that in India the high caste can not merry with |
| A. | Middle class |
| B. | Low caste |
| C. | High caste |
| D. | Middle class |
| Answer» C. High caste | |
| 29. |
According to anthropology the caste system is very famous in |
| A. | Africa |
| B. | China |
| C. | India |
| D. | America |
| Answer» D. America | |
| 30. |
The ideology that one sex is superior to other is called |
| A. | sexuality |
| B. | sexism |
| C. | sexual harassment |
| D. | Homosexual |
| Answer» C. sexual harassment | |
| 31. |
Which one of the following is not the disadvantages of caste system? |
| A. | It limited the choice of profession |
| B. | It introduced much needed |
| C. | It made people fatalist |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. It made people fatalist | |
| 32. |
There are many restrictions of castes and sub-castes in matter of marriage in |
| A. | Japan |
| B. | china |
| C. | America |
| D. | Pakistan |
| Answer» E. | |
| 33. |
According to anthropologists in India if a man who has sex with lower-caste women can restore his purity with a bath and a |
| A. | Dance |
| B. | Prayer |
| C. | Music |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. Music | |
| 34. |
The untouchables are not coming forward because of |
| A. | lack of knowledge |
| B. | Their inferiority complex |
| C. | Their traditional mind |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Their traditional mind | |
| 35. |
A temporary or permanent partnership is called |
| A. | union |
| B. | coalition |
| C. | Affineal |
| D. | Affinals |
| Answer» C. Affineal | |
| 36. |
According to anthropologists the uarna is a caste in India which is |
| A. | Can touch |
| B. | Untouchable |
| C. | Impure |
| D. | both b and c |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
According to anthropologists in India they always prefer to merry within the lineage of |
| A. | Kin group |
| B. | Clan |
| C. | caste |
| D. | Descent groups |
| Answer» E. | |
| 38. |
One of the most effective solution to the persisting problem of untouchability is |
| A. | To raise economic standard of the |
| B. | To spread literature against the system |
| C. | Socially low |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. To spread literature against the system | |
| 39. |
Which one of the following was not the advantages of caste system? |
| A. | It made divorce easy |
| B. | Each caste monopolized one |
| C. | It developed a system of cooperation |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» B. Each caste monopolized one | |
| 40. |
Which of the following theories makes us believe that caste system is not of human but of divine origin? |
| A. | Political theory |
| B. | Racial theory |
| C. | Occupational theory |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. Occupational theory | |
| 41. |
In our times most acceptable theory about origin of the caste system is |
| A. | Traditional theory |
| B. | Religious theory |
| C. | Evolutionary theory |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» B. Religious theory | |
| 42. |
According to anthropologists bands, tribe, chiefdom and state are categories or types in a system of |
| A. | Economical typology |
| B. | Sociopolitical typology |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 43. |
According to anthropologists there are how many types of diffusion? |
| A. | 1 |
| B. | 2 |
| C. | 3 |
| D. | 4 |
| Answer» D. 4 | |
| 44. |
According to anthropologists diffusion is indirect when items move from group A to group C via group B without any firsthand contact between A and C |
| A. | Direct diffusion |
| B. | Indirect diffusion |
| C. | Forced diffusion |
| D. | Culture traits |
| Answer» C. Forced diffusion | |
| 45. |
The diffusion of culture, was published in |
| A. | 1935 |
| B. | 1938 |
| C. | 1937 |
| D. | 1933 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
The idea of 'imperatively coordinated associations' was given by |
| A. | Karl Marx |
| B. | Max Weber |
| C. | Lewis Coser |
| D. | Ralph Dahrendorf |
| Answer» E. | |
| 47. |
According to anthropologists zoororphic like plants and animals part-time practioners shaman is practiced in |
| A. | Primitive societies |
| B. | Foraging bands |
| C. | Polytheism |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. Polytheism | |
| 48. |
The founder of Buddhism is |
| A. | Siddhartha Gautama |
| B. | Jesus |
| C. | Muhammad |
| D. | Abraham |
| Answer» B. Jesus | |
| 49. |
According to anthropology totems are sacred emblems symbolizing common |
| A. | Prestige |
| B. | Identity |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 50. |
Bronislaw Malinowski believed that children would naturally seek to express their sexual feelings particularly as they increased in |
| A. | Aged |
| B. | Old age |
| C. | Adolescence |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |