SET-17-Anthropology-II(A)-I

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2617
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ANTHROPOLOGY
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ANTHROPOLOGY

PAPER II

1. Malinowski propounded Functional Theory based 6. Who among the following was a naturalist?
on his ethnography field work among (A) Charles Darwin
(A) Andamanese (B) Hugo-de-Varies
(B) Trobriand Islanders (C) Julian Huxley
(C) Nicobarese (D) Sewall Wright
(D) Nuer
7. Who discovered the Laetoli foot prints?
(A) Mary Leakey
2. Who used the term prehistory for the first time?
(B) David Pilbeam
(A) Valentine Ball
(C) Richard Leakey
(B) John Lubbock
(D) Louis Leakey
(C) Daniel Wilson
(D) Robert Bruce Foote 8. Identify the correct sequence in ascending order
of the following concepts:
3. Identify the correct sequence of the trend in (A) Dominant caste  Folk-urban continuum
primate evolution from lower to higher order:  Universalization and Parochialization
(A) Anthropoids — hominids — hominoids Nature-man-spirit complex
— prosimians (B) Folk-urban continuum  Dominant caste
(B) Prosimians — anthropoids — hominoids  Universalization and Parochialization
— hominids Nature-man-spirit complex
(C) Prosimians — anthropoids — hominids (C) Nature-man-spirit  complex Folk-urban
— hominoids continuum  Universalization and
Parochialization Dominant caste
(D) Hominids — hominoids — anthropoids
— prosimians (D) Folk-urban continuum Nature-man-spirit
complexDominant caste Universalization
and Parochialization
4. According to Levi-Strauss, prohibition on
marriage would lead to 9. Which of the following is a relative dating
(A) Complex kinship system method?
(B) Crow-Omaha kinship system (A) Radiocarbon
(C) Elementary kinship system (B) Stratigraphy
(D) None of the above (C) Thermoluminiscence
(D) Fission-track

5. The technique which was specialised by the 10. Who has given the concept of ‘Thick Description’
Upper Palaeoliltic man for producing blades is known as in Anthropology?
(A) Clactonian technique (A) E. B. Tylor
(B) Levallois technique (B) Emile Durkheim
(C) Step flaking technique (C) Victor Turner
(D) Pressure flaking technique (D) Clifford Geertz
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11. The first hominid to appear on the earth was 18. The latest modification of the statement on race
(A) Homo habilis was made by
(B) Australopithecus (A) World Health Organisation
(C) Ramapitheus (B) Indian Council of Medical Research
(D) Homo erectus (C) American Association of Physical
Anthropologists
12. An interrelation between two or more clans (D) United Nations
makes a
(A) Moiety 19. The dating based on the growth of yearly rings of
(B) Phratry certain long lasting trees is called
(C) Tribe (A) Chronometric dating
(D) Family (B) Relative chronology
(C) Dendrochronology
13. Ash mound sites are associated with
(D) Absolute chronology
(A) Palaeolithic culture
(B) Mesolithic culture 20. Arrange Anthony Wallace’s concept of religious
(C) Neolithic culture belief and practices in desending order.
(D) Chalcolithic culture (A) Individualistic cult→ Shamanistic cult
→ Communal cult→ Eccelesiastical cult
14. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(B) Eccelesiastical cult→ Communal cult
(A) Ramapithecus — South Africa
→ Individualistic cult→ Shamanistic cult
(B) Homo habilis — East Africa
(C) Shamanistic cult→ Communal cult
(C) Neanderthal — China → Eccelesiastical cult→ Individualistic cult
(D) Cromagnon — India (D) Eccelesiastical cult→ Communal cult
15. The term Panchayat literally means → Shamanistic cult→ Individualistic cult
(A) Group or council of lives
21. Boyd classified the human species into races on
(B) Village life the basis of
(C) Village communities (A) Dermatoglyphics
(D) Group of people (B) Hair
16. Which of the following was the first Palaeolithic (C) Stature
site excavated in India? (D) Blood Groups
(A) Susunia
(B) Kuliana 22. Arrange the epochs of tertiary period form earliest
to latest:
(C) Hungsi
(A) Eocene, Oligocene, Pliocene, Palaeocene,
(D) Atirampakkam
Miocene
17. Which of the following castes in South India is (B) Miocene, Pliocene, Palaeocene, Eocene,
known for matriarchal system? Oligocene
(A) Lingayat (C) Oligocene, Palaeocene, Eocene, Miocene,
(B) Numbudri Brahmin Pliocene
(C) Nayar (D) Palaeocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene,
(D) Okkaliga Pliocene
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23. Non disjunction of X chromosome may lead to 28. Who is the author of the book ‘India : An
(A) Turner’s syndrome Archaeological History’?
(B) Klienefelter’s syndrome (A) H. D. Sankhalia
(C) Down’s syndrome (B) V. N. Misra
(D) Patau syndrome (C) Dilip K. Chakrabarti
(D) V. S. Wakankar
24. The term Savagery, Barbarism and Civilization
29. Which one of the following non-human Primates
was first coined by
is not found in India?
(A) William Robertson
(A) Loris
(B) Les Eyzies
(B) Lemur
(C) L. H. Morgan
(C) Gibbon
(D) W. H. R. Rivers
(D) Langur
25. The concept of ‘Three Age System’ was developed 30. The rule by which a man is not allowed to marry
by some one from his own social group is called
(A) C. J. Thomsen (A) Endogamy
(B) M. C. Burkitt (B) Exogamy
(C) Lubbock (C) Polygamy
(D) V. Gordon Childe (D) Both (A) and (B)

26. Match the items in List I with items of List II. Use 31. Arrange the names of the following scholars in
the codes given below: order in which they classified the people of India from
the earliest to the recent:
List I List II
(I) Gene Pool a. T. H. Morgan (A) Guha — Sarkar — Haddon — Risley
(II) Linkage b. E. A. Hooton (B) Risley — Haddon — Guha — Sarkar
(III) Mutation Theory c. T. Dobzhansky (C) Sarkar — Risley — Haddon — Guha
(IV) Primary and d. Hugo-de-Vries (D) Haddon — Risley — Guha — Sarkar
Secondary races
32. Which of the following pair is not correctly
Codes: matched?
a b c d (A) Burzaham — Neolithic site of Northern
(A) II IV I III India
(B) I II III IV (B) Bhimbetka — Rock art and cave shelter site
(C) IV III II I (C) Soham valley — Site of Microlithic tradition
(D) III I IV II
(D) Langhnaj — Mesolithic site of Western India
27. Who among the following could be regarded a 33. The concept of ‘acculturation’ was first developed
pioneer in the field of village studies in India? by
(A) L. P. Vidyarthi (A) Redfield, Linton and Herskovits
(B) N. K. Bose (B) Redfield, Linton and Srinivas
(C) D. N. Mazumdar (C) Radcliffe Brown, Redfield and Linton
(D) S. C. Dube (D) Redcliffe Brown, Redfield and Herskovits
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34. Which of the following statements are true for 38. ‘Potlach’ as practiced by Kwakiatul India of
Orangutan? North west coast of America can be categorised as
(i) They are found in the islands of Sumatra and (A) simply a form of gift exchange
Borneo (B) a ritualized exchange
(ii) They show extreme sexual dimorphision
(C) a system of redistribution
(iii) They are extensively studied by Jane Goodall
(iv) They are the largest of the Asian apes. (D) None of the above
Combinations:
(A) Only (i), (ii) and (iii) are true
(B) Only (i), (ii) and (iv) are true
39. Choose the correct sequence of the following
(C) Only (ii), (iii) and (iv) are true
stone tool types from early to later:
(D) Only (i), (iii) and (iv) are true
(A) Cleaver — Trapeze — Backed knife
35. When a group looses its own culture under the (B) Trapeze — Backed knife — Cleaver
influence of other, the process is termed as (C) Cleaver — Backed knife — Trapeze
(A) Enculturation (D) Backed knife — Trapeze — Cleaver
(B) Transculturation
(C) Neo culturation
(D) Deculturation
40. The fossil remains of Arago have been grouped
36. Which is the typical tool used during the under:
Magdalenian Phase? (A) Homo erectus
(A) Harpoon
(B) Homo sapiens
(B) Handaxe
(C) Spear (C) Archaic sapiens
(D) Fabricator (D) Homo habilis

37. Match the items of List I with items of List II. Use
the codes given below:
List I List II 41. Match the items in List I with items of List II. Use
the codes given below:
(I) Mains most a. Alex Hrdlicka
Dangerous List I List II
Myth: The falacy of race (I) Basic personality a. R. Linton
(II) Decades Carniorum b. Weiner and Lourie (II) Basic personality b. R. Linton and
(III) Human Biology: A c. Ashley Montague structure A. Kardiner
guide to field methods (III) Modal personality c. Cora Du-Bois
(IV) Anthropometry d. J. H. Blumenbach (IV) Appolonian culture d. Ruth Benedict
Codes: Codes:
a b c d a b c d
(A) IV III I II (A) I II III IV
(B) III IV II I (B) I II IV III
(C) I II IV III (C) IV III II I
(D) IV II I III (D) III IV I II
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42. Which of the pair is correctly matched?
(A) ABO blood group system— K. Landsteiner
and A. S. Weiner
(B) Rh blood group system— K. Landsteiner
and A. S. Weiner
(C) Pharmacogenetics— W. S. Sutton
(D) Phenylketonuria— J. B. S. Haldane
43. The warm periods in some places within the span
of the glaciations are called
(A) Interstadial
(B) Interpluvials
(C) Interglacial
(D) None of the above
44. Identify the correct sequence of political
organizations among different human societies in
ascending order:
(A) State — Chiefdom — Tribe — Band
(B) Band — Tribe — Chiefdom — State
(C) Chiefdom — State — Band — Tribe
(D) Tribe — Band — State — Chiefdom
45. The name of the book authored by Charles Darwin
in 1871 is
(A) The Descent of Man
(B) The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation
to Sex
(C) The Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection
(D) The Origin and Decent of Man
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46. Acheulian culture heralds the beginning of which
of the following techniques?
(A) Block on block technique
(B) Cylinder hammer technique
(C) Pressure flaking technique
(D) Punching technique
47. Who amongst the following was called “Father
of Indian Ethnology”?
(A) R. P. Chandra
(B) S. C. Roy
(C) D. N. Majumdar
(D) A. Aiyappan
48. Who among the following championed the cause
of Biological Anthropology?
(A) W. H. Sheldon
(B) Th. Dobzhansky
(C) E. A. Hooton
(D) Franz Boas
49. Choose the correct sequence of cultural tradition:
(A) Mousterian — Acheulian — Magdalenian
(B) Magdalenian — Acheulian — Mousterian
(C) Acheulian — Mousterian — Magdalenian
(D) Acheulian — Magdalenian — Mousterian
50. Identify the correct sequential order of subgroups
of caste in Indian society from the smallest unit.
(A) Lineage — Family — Sub caste — Gotra
(B) Gotra — Sub caste — Family — Lineage
(C) Sub caste — Gotra — Lineage — Family
(D) Family — Lineage — Gotra — Sub caste
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