ANT101 – Cultural Anthropology Chapter 7 Name:

1._____Which of the following statements about the incest taboo is correct?

a. All human societies have an incest taboo, but it is only applicable to the nuclear family.

b. The incest taboo is found only in Western societies.

c. All human societies have an incest taboo.

d. The incest taboo encourages cousins to mate but not members of the same nuclear family.

2._____ Marriage traditionally, and most commonly, extends social alliances between all of the following except:

a. cultures. b. the couple. c. the couple and child. d. kin groups. e. different families.

3. _____What is the primary significance of rules of exogamy?

a. They form the basis for alliance between groups. b. They keep privileges and wealth of a group intact.

c. They limit rivalries for power and influence. d. They function to create a religious alliance.

e. They allow families to marry individuals who are related to them.

4. _____Parallel-cousin marriage involves:

a. children whose parents are first cousins. b. children whose parents are related by marriage.

c. children who are third cousins. d. children of the parents’ opposite-sex siblings.

e. children of the parents’ same-sex siblings.

5. _____The most common form of marriage across cultures is:

a. monogamy. b. polygyny. c. polyandry. d. arranged marriage. e. serial monogamy.

6. _____Polygyny is a form of marriage in which:

a. women’s status is universally low. b. women’s status is universally high.

c. women’s and men’s status varies cross-culturally. d. men’s status is universally high.

e. men’s status is universally low.

7. _____Nuclear families are organized around __________ relations and extended families are organized around __________ relations.

a. consanguineal; descent b. affinal; consanguineal c. descent; residence d. residence; conjugal

8. _____When a couple lives with the wife’s family, it is referred to as:

a. neolocal residence. b. matrilocal residence. c. avunculocal residence. d. patrilocal residence.

9. _____Kin groups that trace descent from a common ancestor and who can demonstrate those genealogical links among themselves are called:

a. moieties. b. clans. c. kindreds. d. lineages.

10. _____A(n) __________ family is organized around the female line.

a. ambilineal b. patrilineal c. matrilineal d. bilineal