1. Gender differences in communication often give rise tostereotypes. One common one in the United States suggests thatwomen never seem to stop talking. This contradicts the researchshowing that men
  a.  are better able to use language totheir advantage.
  b.  adopt linguistic strategies that helpthem maintain conversational dominance.
  c.  are often reluctant to speak up inmixed-gender settings.
  d.  adopt linguistic strategies that focuson letting women participate in conversation.
2. In 1967, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimouslythat laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional,which ended the legal practice of
  a.  mixing.
  b.  dilution.
  c.  anti-miscegenation.
  d.  hypodescent.
3. In writing about her findings in a Brazilian shantytown,Nancy Scheper-Hughes’s account of Alto do Cruzeiro provides awindow into the terrible toll of nonconsensual organ harvestingamong the poor, as well as how she herself changed over time. Howmight an anthropologist justify the publication of thisethnographic research when considering the problem of ethnographicauthority?
  a.  The horrific conditions made itimpossible to ignore, and since she obtained informed consent, thisis justification.
  b.  Anthropologists are themselves changedin fieldwork, and so honest reflexivity is justification.
  c.  All of the poor must be given an equalvoice, thus polyvocality is justification.
  d.  Authoritative writing asks us toconsider what right we have to report, thus a moral challenge isjustification.
4. About fifteen years ago, the giant Walmart corporation openeda store in Germany. Ten years later, it closed the entire chainthere and pulled out of the country. Its approach was toreplicate—exactly— the stores found in the United States. For somecorporations like McDonalds, such expansion has been successful.These efforts are all part of how globalization tends to
  a.  monopolize.
  b.  cosmopolitanize.
  c.  homogenize.
  d.  dominate.
5. Many people believe that the impact of human activity on theearth is not the major problem that others see today. Such beliefsthat one’s own culture or way of life is normal and natural isknown as
  a.  normalcy.
  b.  ethnocentrism.
  c.  consensus.
  d.  conventionality.
