Anthropology Questions and Answers for Competitive Exams | Anthropology Quiz Set 17

Questions
1 What is globalization ?
1 Free flow of goods, services, and ideas throughout the globe.
2 Cessation of flow of goods, services, and ideas throughout the globe.
3 Restricted flow of goods, services, and ideas throughout the globe.
4 Limited flow of goods, services, and ideas throughout the globe.

Answer: Free flow of goods, services, and ideas throughout the globe.
2 Anthropologically speaking, when did globalization emerge on this planet ?
1 Ever since man’s appearance on earth
2 Since the First World War.
3 Since the Second World war
4 Since the medieval period.

Answer:Ever since man’s appearance on earth

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3 What is meant by ‘state restriction’ ?
1 Restrictions imposed by citizens of a state
2 Restrictions imposed by the state
3 Restrictions imposed on a state by the neighbouring state.
4 Restrictions imposed by a conquering state.

Answer:Restrictions imposed on a state by the neighbouring state.
4 Who are the First Americans ?
1 The Europeans who migrated to the New World after Columbus discovered it.
2 The Africans who were taken as slaves by the Europeans during the age of slavery.
3 The Central Asians who crossed the Bering Strait through the Siberian Desert.
4 The ancient Egyptians who crossed the Atlantic and reached the New World.

Answer: The Central Asians who crossed the Bering Strait through the Siberian Desert.
5 What is meant by ‘national boundaries’ ?
1 The physical and the political boundary of a country.
2 The physical boundary of a continent.
3 The physical boundary of a city.
4 The physical boundary of a big island.

Answer:The physical and the political boundary of a country.
6 Who is considered as the founder of Physical Anthropology ?
1 Johann Friedrich Blumanbach
2 Georges Cuvier
3 Ashley Montagu
4 Juan Comas

Answer:Johann Friedrich Blumanbach
7 Darwin’s theory was unable to explain :
1 Natural Selection
2 Struggle for existence
3 Variation
4 Survival of the fittest

Answer:Variation
8 Who discovered Australopithecus afarensis ?
1 Donald Johanson
2 Meave Leakey
3 Raymond Dart
4 C. Loring Brace

Answer: Donald Johanson
9 Classification of the Indian races was done by :
1 I.P. Singh
2 D.P. Mukherjee
3 S.S. Sarkar
4 P.C. Biswas

Answer:S.S. Sarkar
10 Who is the author of the book ‘Primitive Culture’ ?
1 Lewis H. Morgan
2 E.B. Tylor
3 A.C. Haddon
4 Henry Maine

Answer: E.B. Tylor
11 The formal custom which requires a man to marry a woman of the category of his mother’s brother’s daughter involves the notion of :
1 Restricted exchange
2 Generalized exchange
3 Delayed exchange
4 No exchange

Answer:Generalized exchange
12 Who coined the terms ‘Endogamy’ and ‘Exogamy’ ?
1 J.F. McLennan
2 Adolf Bastian
3 L.H. Morgan
4 G.P. Murdock

Answer:J.F. McLennan
13 People who do not produce their own food but instead rely on wild plants and animals for subsistence are known as :
1 Foragers
2 Horticulturalists
3 Pastoralists
4 Agriculturalists

Answer:Foragers
14 Which one of the following pluvial is known as Kanjeran ?
1 First pluvial
2 Second pluvial
3 1st inter-pluvial
4 Third pluvial

Answer:Third pluvial
15 Which of the following is primary stone tool making technique for fluting ?
1 Block-on-Block technique
2 Free flaking technique
3 Resolved flaking technique
4 Pressure flaking technique

Answer:Pressure flaking technique

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