Window On Humanity A Concise Introduction To General Anthropology 8th Edition By Conrad Kottak – Test Bank

Overview

Chapter 11

Making a Living

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most present-day foragers
   A.primarily fish for subsistence.
   B. are wholly dependent on welfare supplied by state-level societies.
   C. live largely in isolation from food-producing neighbors and the influence of the state.
   D. live in marginal environments.
   E. adopted foraging after abandoning more advanced subsistence strategies.

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Learning Objective: Describe what foraging, horticulture, and agriculture entail, and recall the predominant social features often correlated with these adaptive strategies in Cohen’s typology.
Topic: The main features of foraging, horticulture, and agriculture

2. Shifting cultivation
   A.typically involves the use of draft animals.
   B. cannot support permanent villages.
   C. requires irrigation.
   D. requires cultivators to let exhausted plots of land lie fallow for several years.
   E. relies extensively on chemical fertilizers.

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Learning Objective: Compare and contrast how contemporary foragers, horticulturalists, agriculturalists, and pastoralists live in nation-states.
Topic: Contemporary foragers, horticulturalists, agriculturalists, and pastoralists

3. ________ is NOT one of the adaptive strategies included in Cohen’s typology.
   A.Pastoralism
   B. Redistribution
   C. Agriculture
   D. Industrialism
   E. Foraging

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Learning Objective: Define adaptive strategy, and list the five adaptive strategies in Cohen’s typology of societies.
Topic: Defining the five adaptive strategies

4. All humans were foragers until approximately
   A.10 million years ago.
   B. 1 million years ago.
   C. 100,000 years ago.
   D. 12,000 years ago.
   E. 1,000 years ago.

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Learning Objective: Describe what foraging, horticulture, and agriculture entail, and recall the predominant social features often correlated with these adaptive strategies in Cohen’s typology.
Topic: The main features of foraging, horticulture, and agriculture

5. The __________ are NOT foragers.
   A.Basseri of Iran
   B. Australian aborigines
   C. Mbuti of Congo
   D. Eskimos of Alaska and Canada
   E. San of the Kalahari Desert

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Learning Objective: Describe what foraging, horticulture, and agriculture entail, and recall the predominant social features often correlated with these adaptive strategies in Cohen’s typology.
Topic: The main features of foraging, horticulture, and agriculture

6. A common social unit among foragers is the
   A.tribe.
   B. chiefdom.
   C. segmentary lineage.
   D. state.
   E. band.

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Learning Objective: Describe what foraging, horticulture, and agriculture entail, and recall the predominant social features often correlated with these adaptive strategies in Cohen’s typology.
Topic: The main features of foraging, horticulture, and agriculture

7. Obligatory interaction between groups or organisms that is beneficial to each is
   A.cultivation.
   B. swiddening.
   C. fallowing.
   D. symbiosis.
   E. transhumance.

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Learning Objective: Describe pastoralism and its social features and distinguish between pastoral nomadism and transhumance.
Topic: Defining pastoralism and distinguishing between pastoral nomadism and transhumance

8. Horticulture makes intensive use of
   A.labor.
   B. land.
   C. machinery.
   D. capital.
   E. none of these factors of production.

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Learning Objective: Compare and contrast how contemporary foragers, horticulturalists, agriculturalists, and pastoralists live in nation-states.
Topic: Contemporary foragers, horticulturalists, agriculturalists, and pastoralists

9. ________ is a characteristic of most foraging societies.
   A.Social stratification
   B. Sedentism
   C. Egalitarianism
   D. Irrigation
   E. Large population

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Learning Objective: Describe what foraging, horticulture, and agriculture entail, and recall the predominant social features often correlated with these adaptive strategies in Cohen’s typology.
Topic: The main features of foraging, horticulture, and agriculture

10. Agricultural intensification is NOT associated with
    A.greater ecological diversity.
    B. deforestation.
    C. increased regulation of interpersonal relations.
    D. increased potential for conflict.
    E. population growth.