Culture quiz

More questions about Culture

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1. 1 Easy

   Which curved Australian hunting tool returns when thrown?

   Answer: Boomerang

   Why: Traditional hunting throwing sticks flew straight to strike prey, while returning boomerangs were used to flush birds into nets.

2. 2 Medium

   What name is given to cultural norms that carry strong moral significance?

   Answer: Mores

   Why: Folkways govern casual etiquette like greeting styles, while mores enforce essential moral rules whose violation triggers severe punishment.

3. 3 Hard

   Which kinship classification is most widely used in Western societies?

   Answer: Eskimo

   Why: One of the six classic kinship types, it lumps every cousin under a single word and splits parents' siblings only by sex, aunt or uncle.

4. 4 Easy

   How do anthropologists classify physical objects crafted and used within a society?

   Answer: Artifacts

   Why: Archaeologists sort finds into two groups: artifacts, made or modified by people, and ecofacts like seeds, pollen and animal bones.

5. 5 Medium

   Why did Bronisław Malinowski end up studying Trobriand Islanders?

   Answer: World War I restrictions on enemy aliens kept him there.

   Why: Offered internment in Australia or restricted movement in Papua, the Austro-Hungarian subject chose Papua and called it voluntary captivity.

6. 6 Hard

   Which hunter-gatherer people is the most genetically diverse on Earth?

   Answer: San

   Why: Sequencing 150 Khoe-San genomes found 1.3 million unknown variants; their lineage is one branch of the oldest split in Homo sapiens.