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Q: According to Fish (Mixed Blood), an avocado is classed as a in the U.S. and a ____ in Brazil. a. fruit, seed b. seed, nut c. vegetable, nut d. vegetable, fruit e. nut, seed

Q: The world that people can experience with their senses is called a. ecology. b. cultural ecology. c. physical environment. d. cultural environment. e. none of the above

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), which one of the following recommendations resulting from the study she directed was adopted by the state of California? a. There should be improved translation services. b. The position of MTA should be abolished. c. Overcrowding should be assessed. d. two of the above a. all of the above

Q: According to Fish (Mixed Blood), the terms moreno, loura, branca, and preta all refer to a. particular physical characteristics Brazilians use to assign people to what they call tipos. b. areas of Brazil after which groups of people are named. c. Brazilian names for different tipos (types). d. areas of Brazil from which particular tipos are thought to have originated. e. a folk taxonomy of skin colors starting with black and ending with white.

Q: The study of how people use their culture to adapt to particular environments is called a. ecology. b. cultural ecology. c. environmentalism. d. environmental determinism. e. physical ecology.

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), the purpose of public interest ethnography is to a. study the motivations of policy makers. b. assess the costs associated with a policy. c. assess a policy from the perspective of those affected by it. d. discover inconsistencies in a policy. e. none of the above

Q: According to Fish (Mixed Blood), his daughter can change her race by flying from New York to Brazil. She can do this because a. Brazilians don"t know what her North American racial classification is. b. Brazilians have a different set of racial categories than do North Americans. c. she can claim to be any race she wants because there are no such things as biological races. d. airplanes provide a computer program that permits people to change their racial designation. e. although she is classed as white in the U.S., she can become loura, preta, or tipo in Brazil.

Q: Cultural ecology is the most important form of subsistence strategy.

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), in order to receive medical treatment, female inmates in the California prison system had to a. pay a $5 copay. b. receive a ducat. c. see a nurse practitioner first. d. two of the above e. a, b, c above

Q: Fish (Mixed Blood) argues that human biological races do not exist because a. human physical characteristics, such as skin color and nose shape, do not vary together. b. scientists have ignored important physical traits such as body shape. c. people find it politically incorrect to name them. d. the real traits that indicate genetic groupings cannot be observed. e. none of the above

Q: Slash-and-burn agriculture is a kind of horticulture.

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), the prison position of MTA consisted of a a. nurse practitioner. b. medically trained guard. c. medical appointment secretary. d. designated prison doctor. e. medical procedure coordinator.

Q: According to Fish (Mixed Blood), human biological variety is caused by a. mutation. b. natural selection. c. genetic drift. d. only two of the above. e. a, b, can c above.

Q: The origin of bipedality (two-footedness) in humans is something that an anthropologist interested in cultural ecology would study.

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), the Women's Prison Healthcare Project she directed discovered that a. women lived in overcrowded cells. b. women were paid very little for the work they did in the prison. c. women sometimes faked illness to get special attention. d. two of the above e. a, b, and c above

Q: According to Fish, the American conception of race is a. based on what people look like. b. based on the racial identity of one's parents. c. ignores the principle of hypo-descent. d. parallels the way Brazilians classify races. e. is based on biological reality.

Q: Four anthropological classifications of societies based on food-getting techniques are hunting and gathering, horticulture, pastoralism, and agriculture.

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), the ethnographic project she directed recommended that prisons should eliminate the MTA (medically trained guard) position.

Q: Fish argues that scientists, such as psychologists, use the concept of hypo-descent to choose the physical characteristics that determine biological races.

Q: Food-getting strategies have little impact on the structure of society.

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), the Women's Prison Health Care Project she directed discovered that female inmates in two California Prisons usually faked ailments in order to receive special treatment.

Q: According to Fish, Brazilians classify people into tipos such as loura, branca, morena, mulata, and preta on the basis of how they look.

Q: The physical environment is one area of human experience that people everywhere categorize in the same way.

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), female inmates at two California prisons often avoid seeking treatment for the ailments because getting an appointment with a health care provider took so long and many inmates could not afford the required copay.

Q: According to Fish, North Americans fail in their attempt to classify people into races because they ignore important physical differences such as body shape (rounded and lanky for example).

Q: Tannen notes that men often fail to ask for directions and that women usually do ask for directions. Because it is easy to show that not asking for directions can have dire consequences, she suggests that men a. should change and ask for directions. b. should ask for directions but in an indirect manner. c. should be flexible, asking for directions when it seems appropriate to do so. d. two of the above e. none of the above

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), the Women's Prison Healthcare Project she directed unfortunately failed to produce actionable recommendations.

Q: According to Fish (Mixed Blood), avocados are classified by Brazilians as a fruit and by North Americans as a vegetable.

Q: According to Tannen, men often argue that an advantage of not asking questions is that a. they avoid receiving incorrect information. b. they learn to discover answers for themselves. c. they can feel superior to other people by not showing their ignorance. d. two of the above e. a, b, and c above

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), a Latina inmate named Nicole was subdued, stripped naked, and incarcerated separately when she experienced complications related to a medication she was taking.

Q: According to Fish, human beings cannot be classified into races on the basis of physical characteristics because there is so little variation within the human species.

Q: Tannen argues that one negative consequence for women of asking questions is that they may seem a. weak and unconfident. b. pushy and overbearing. c. cold and uncaring. d. two of the above e. a, b, and c above

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), public interest ethnography is aimed at redistribution of wealth in the United State.

Q: In his article, "Mixed Blood," Fish argues that the American concept of race is culturally constructed, not a biological reality

Q: Tannen (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job), notes that of all the examples of conversational-style differences between men and women that lead to troublesome outcomes, has attracted the most attention of her readers. a. men's tendency to interrupt women in normal conversation b. women's tendency to criticize men when they talk with other women c. women's tendency to be indirect when they talk with men d. men's tendency to avoid asking directions of other people e. men's tendency to act as if they know the answer to a question when they actually don"t

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), public interest ethnography may achieve a redistribution of power that includes those affected by policy.

Q: Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?) argues that Westerners should a. discover the cultural meanings of Muslim customs in order to change them. b. follow the principle of cultural relativism, meaning that they discover and respect the cultural knowledge and behavior of other peoples without trying to change them. c. try to discover what Muslims want, such as an end to poverty and war, as a way to help them. d. try to eradicate the subjugation of Muslim women by eliminating the burqa and veiling. e. none of the above

Q: Tannen (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job), tells the story of how Amy, a manager, tried to tell her employee, Donald, how to change an unsatisfactory report. Her approach led to misunderstanding because a. she was too direct. b. Donald would not ask for help. c. she praised the good parts of the report before suggesting changes. d. she put Donald in a one-down position by demonstrating her superior knowledge. e. Donald took her comments as a personal criticism.

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), public interest ethnography involves fieldwork among policy makers.

Q: According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), Laura Bush gave a speech in which she a. praised Afghan women for their resistance to the Taliban. b. recognized the place of Afghan women as the major bread winners in Afghanistan. c. used the supposed plight of Afghan women as a reason to invade Afghanistan. d. criticized Afghan women for encouraging Taliban resistance to the American presence. e. none of the above

Q: According and Tannen, men often avoid asking directions because a. their over-direct style does not yield accurate answers. b. asking puts them in a one-down position. c. they fail to listen to the answers they get. d. two of the above e. none of the above

Q: According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), public interest ethnography looks at public policy from the perspective of those who are affected by it.

Q: According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), the Taliban treated the wearing burqa as a ________ requirement. a. political b. optional c. economic d. religious e. fashion

Q: According to Tannen (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job), women's conversation often works at the appearance of equality. Men's conversation, on the other hand, is often directed at a. an attempt to put others in a one-down position by bragging or inferring superior knowledge. b. avoiding the one-down position by acting as if they don"t know what the other person means. c. avoiding the one-down position by ignoring other people. d. an attempt to put others in a one-down position by faking interest in the conversation. e. avoiding the one-down position by using oppositions such as banter, joking, teasing, and playful putdowns.

Q: According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), leprosy is caused by a. a parasite carried in Ganges river water. b. a parasite carried by mosquitoes. c. a bacterium, but the way it is transmitted to an individual is not yet understood. d. a bacterium found in Ganges river water. e. a bacterium that is transmitted to people by contact with human feces.

Q: According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), wearing the burqa or the veil symbolizes _____________ to Muslim women. a. respectability b. modesty c. a separation of the women's and the men's world d. two of the above e. a, b, c above

Q: In her article (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job), Tannen argues that in the workplace a. men often refrain from asking for directions while women often seek to create the appearance of equality in a conversation. b. men believe that women are too forward and direct when they talk. c. gender does not affect talking styles. d. women seek a one up position in conversation whereas men diffuse speech domination by joking about it. e. men are more likely than women to ask for directions.

Q: According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), which of the following statements is not true? a. The holistic approach in medical anthropology is essential to understanding and preventing socially stigmatized diseases. b. Medical anthropologists should be clinically trained to help prevent or at least cure stigmatized diseases such as leprosy. c. "Disease" refers to the biological aspects of a medical condition; illness refers to the personal experience of that condition. d. two of the above e. a, b, and c, above

Q: According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), once U.S. forces drove the Taliban out of Afghanistan most Pashtun Afghan women a. refused to wear burqas. b. often continued to wear the burqa in public. c. readily adopted Western dress. d. adopted the Pakistani salwar and kamiz style of dress. e. began to wear trousers and t-shirts supplied to them by U.S. soldiers.

Q: Tannen (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job) argues that in the workplace, men often refrain from asking for directions because it puts them in a one-down position.

Q: According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), a man named Ram Dev asked Barrett to a. cut him to make his leprosy-related lesions look worse. b. help him by securing the necessary drugs to cure him of leprosy. c. help him find a place in a local ashram where there were other lepers. d. secure a place in a bathing ghat so he could wash his lesions in Ganges water. e. none of the above

Q: According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), the garment that entirely encloses a woman from head to toe is called a a. burqa. b. hadash. c. jihad. d. fromage. e. none of the above

Q: Tannen (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job) claims that men's failure to ask for directions is a serious flaw in communications between the sexes in the workplace and should be changed.

Q: According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), a woman named Sita a. was exiled to an ashram near Varanasi after being cured of leprosy. b. became a beggar depending on alms for her survival because she was a leper. c. managed to successfully hide her condition from her husband while taking drugs designed to cure her leprosy. d. asked Barrett to cut into the lesions caused by leprosy to make them look worse. e. was sent to an ashram near Varanasi by her mother- and father-in-law.

Q: According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), Afghan women at a Bonn conference would not accept rebuilding Afghanistan without maintaining their religion.

Q: According to Tannen (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job), most people think that miscommunication is caused by the intention, different capabilities, and character of others, or by their own failure or a poor relationship.

Q: According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), physical damage caused by leprosy a. is the result of a bacterium that kills the cells in the extremities of its victim thus causing lesions. b. can be healed by the six to nine month course of a three drug treatment. c. occurs in the internal organs such as the liver, pancreas, and kidneys. d. is the result of trauma to the body's nerve destroyed extremities. e. is the result of self inflicted trauma by pain racked victims of the disease.

Q: According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), Western feminists should strive to free Muslim women from the necessity of wearing burqas or other forms of veiling.

Q: In her selection (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job) Tannen argues that most people blame misunderstandings on the ambivalence of words used by men and women when they talk at work.

Q: According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), a. illness is another word for disease. b. illness is what medical anthropologists study. c. illness and disease are treated as different concepts by medical anthropologists. d. studying illness is more important than studying disease. e. almost all diseases stigmatize their victims.

Q: According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), the Taliban interpreted the wearing of burqas by women as a religious necessity.

Q: According to Tannen (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job), speaking styles are ritualized forms of verbal interaction that often differ between men and women.

Q: According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), the Ganges river water a. ritual pollutes the bodies of individuals who bathe in it. b. is thought to absorb one's troubles and sins. c. carries the bacteria that causes leprosy. d. cures leprosy. e. to some extent makes the ulcers that accompany leprosy heal.

Q: Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?) reports that after 20 years of fieldwork in Egypt, she never once met a woman who envied her Western counterparts.

Q: Tannen, in her selection (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job) claims that women's speaking styles, based on a need to create the appearance of equality, are a better form of communication in the work place than men's more direct speaking styles.

Q: According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), in India leprosy is a. easily treated. b. highly contagious. c. caused by a bacterium that kills the body's cells in one's hands and feet and other extremities. d. carried by mosquitoes. e. none of the above

Q: According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), Muslim women would be willing to give up their religion in exchange for freedom from war and poverty.

Q: According to Boxer (The Military Name Game), military operations names such as Roundup, Killer, Ripper, Courageous, Audacious and Dauntless were used by __________ during ________________. a. General Macarthur, the Korean War b. Winston Churchill, World War II c. General Abrams, the Vietnam War d. President Reagan, the invasion of Granada e. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the war with Iraq

Q: According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), because it is treatable, leprosy is no longer stigmatized in India.

Q: According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), the Turkish government years ago banned the wearing of native dress including the veil.

Q: Boxer (The Military Name Game), notes that the name for U.S. operations in Afghanistan, "Infinite Justice," was dropped because a. the term, "infinite," implied that the operation would go on forever. b. the term, "justice," implied a legal rationale for pursuing the conflict and there was none. c. the phrase was too general and meaningless. d. the Council on American-Islamic Relations felt it implied a godly role for the U.S. e. the phrase angered the U.S.'s Arab allies.

Q: According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), social stigma can influence the clinical course of a disease.

Q: According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), most Muslim feminists have strongly opposed the wearing of burqas and other forms of veiling in their countries of origin.

Q: According and Boxer (The Military Name Game), the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff created a ______________nicknamed _____________ to generate names for military operations. a. military command committee, "COMAT" b. computer program, "NICKA" c. three-service bureau, "BOCAB" d. military swat team, "SWATNOM" e. none of the above

Q: According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), in India the stigma felt by lepers is unrelated to the actual course of the disease.

Q: According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), the burqa and other forms of veiling in the Middle East symbolize respectability, modesty, and the separate, home-based, world of women.

Q: According to Boxer (The Military Name Game), the first name given to U.S. operations in Afghanistan was a. Desert Storm. b. Mountain Shield. c. Just Cause. d. Enduring Freedom. e. Infinite Justice.

Q: According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), a man named Ram Dev asked Barrett to cut him in order to make his body, mutilated by the effects of leprosy, look even worse.

Q: According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), most Afghan women were anxious to cease wearing the burqa once U.S. troops drove out the Taliban in 2002.

Q: In her article, "The Military Name Game," Boxer argues that at the time she wrote the article, naming military operations involved using a. a two-word verb-noun phrase that is positive but that is almost meaningless. b. mythology and religion because of their positive moral overtones. c. words that are intended to remain secret. d. consultants from the private sector with backgrounds in advertising. e. aggressive terms such as "Masher," "Thunderbolt," and "Ripper."