Anthropology Questions and Answers for Competitive Exams | Anthropology Quiz Set 1

Questions
1 . Who among the following gave the concept of geographical, local and micro-races ?
1 R.D. Lewontin
2 S.M. Garn
3 E.A. Hooton
4 W.C. Boyd

Answer:S.M. Garn
2 . Which one of the following Epochs is called the “Age of Apes” ?
1 Oligocene
2 Eocene
3 Pleistocene
4 Miocene

Answer:Miocene

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3 Which bone is known as ‘shin bone’ ?
1 Femur
2 Tibia
3 Humerus
4 Ulna

Answer:Tibia
4 One of the first to study brachydactyly was :
1 Francis Galton
2 William Bateson
3 W.C. Farabee
4 A.E. Garrod

Answer:W.C. Farabee
5 “Goodness of fit” test is also known as :
1 t - test
2 ANOVA
3 Chi square test
4 Regression

Answer: Chi square test
6 The maintenance of two or more alleles in a gene pool as a result of heterozygote advantage is :
1 Transient polymorphism
2 Genetic Equilibrium
3 Multiple allelism
4 Balanced polymorphism

Answer: Balanced polymorphism
7 A deficiency disease relating to protein energy malnutrition characterized by growth failure, edema, irritability and pigment changes in the skin is known as :
1 Marasmus
2 Kwashiorkor
3 Rickets
4 Dermatitis

Answer: Kwashiorkor
8 The totality of deleterious alleles in a population is known as :
1 Genetic load
2 Genetic loss
3 Genetic equilibrium
4 Genetic mortality

Answer: Genetic load
9 Who are your cross-cousins ?
1 Your mother’s cousin’s children
2 The children of your mother’s sister or / and your father’s brother
3 Your father’s cousin’s children
4 The children of your father’s sister or / and mother’s brother

Answer: The children of your father’s sister or / and mother’s brother
10 Who among the following is regarded as an ‘armchair anthropologist’ ?
1 Edmund Leach
2 James Frazer
3 Evans - Pritchard
4 B. Malinowski

Answer:James Frazer
11 Which of the following Constitutional Safeguard (Article) is related with the economic development of the Scheduled Tribes ?
1 Article 339(1)
2 Article 275(1)
3 Article 29
4 Article 338

Answer: Article 275(1)
12 Who has edited the book ‘Anthropology Today An Encyclopedic Inventory’ ?
1 Franz Boas
2 A.L. Kroeber
3 Edmund Leach
4 B. Malinowski

Answer:A.L. Kroeber
13 Who first formulated the doctrine of ‘the psychic unity of mankind’ ?
1 L.H. Morgan
2 A.R. Desai
3 Kenneth Pike
4 Adolf Bastian

Answer:Adolf Bastian
14 Who proposed the evolutionary scheme of religion as follows ? Animism → Ancestor worship → Polytheism → Monotheism
1 Franz Boas
2 E.B. Tylor
3 L.H. Morgan
4 R.R. Marrett

Answer:E.B. Tylor
15 The concept that behaviour in a society should be evaluated in terms of the society’s own cultural values is known as :
1 Revivalism
2 Configurationism
3 Cultural relativism
4 Ethnocentrism

Answer:Ethnocentrism

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