Question 1

Negative reciprocity can be described as:

Accepted Answer

A)  aims to build social relationships, with an obligation that the object returned will be of proportional value. 
B)  a form of exchange in which goods are collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern. 
C)  practices that reallocate resources among a group to maximize collective good. 
D)  exchanges that are made through bonds of affection, including among kin, without the expectation that they will be repaid in kind. 
E)  a pattern of exchange in which the parties seek to receive more than they give. 
A)  aims to build social relationships, with an obligation that the object returned will be of proportional value. 
B)  a form of exchange in which goods are collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern. 
C)  practices that reallocate resources among a group to maximize collective good. 
D)  exchanges that are made through bonds of affection, including among kin, without the expectation that they will be repaid in kind. 
E)  a pattern of exchange in which the parties seek to receive more than they give. E

Question 2

European colonialism was achieved through:

Accepted Answer

A)  creating a new market for goods formerly exported from the Orient. 
B)  advanced weaponry and military strategies. 
C)  short-term and equal exchanges with Caribbean islands. 
D)  cooperation through the governments of Spain and England. 
E)  policies that created a balance of power between colonizers and the colonized. 
A)  creating a new market for goods formerly exported from the Orient. 
B)  advanced weaponry and military strategies. 
C)  short-term and equal exchanges with Caribbean islands. 
D)  cooperation through the governments of Spain and England. 
E)  policies that created a balance of power between colonizers and the colonized. B

Question 3

According to the text, ________ is a primary commodity exported from Côte d'Ivoire.

Accepted Answer

A)  sisal 
B)  tea 
C)  peanuts 
D)  cocoa 
E)  bananas 
A)  sisal 
B)  tea 
C)  peanuts 
D)  cocoa 
E)  bananas D

Question 4

Haiti is a significant former colony because:

Accepted Answer

A)  it was the first nation to gain independence from a colonial power. 
B)  it became the first independent former colony to be ruled by people of African descent. 
C)  it was the first colony in the Caribbean to gain independence from Portugal. 
D)  widespread migration from Haiti to Britain occurred after Independence. 
E)  a film depicting the torture of Haitian nationalists was banned in France. 
A)  it was the first nation to gain independence from a colonial power. 
B)  it became the first independent former colony to be ruled by people of African descent. 
C)  it was the first colony in the Caribbean to gain independence from Portugal. 
D)  widespread migration from Haiti to Britain occurred after Independence. 
E)  a film depicting the torture of Haitian nationalists was banned in France.

Question 5

The "Triangle Trade" discussed in the text linked:

Accepted Answer

A)  Asia, Europe, and Africa. 
B)  Africa, Europe, and the Americas. 
C)  Asia, Africa, and the Americas. 
D)  Europe and Africa. 
E)  Europe and Asia. 
A)  Asia, Europe, and Africa. 
B)  Africa, Europe, and the Americas. 
C)  Asia, Africa, and the Americas. 
D)  Europe and Africa. 
E)  Europe and Asia.

Question 6

Which of the following does the author identify as a success the global economy has achieved in the past sixty years?

Accepted Answer

A)  School enrollments have more than doubled across the globe. 
B)  Infant mortality rates have dropped by more than 60 percent. 
C)  A reduction in poverty: fewer than one million people across the globe go hungry each day. 
D)  Life expectancy has risen by 50 percent to seventy-eight years in the past century. 
E)  A decline in child malnutrition resulting in fewer than one million deaths annually. 
A)  School enrollments have more than doubled across the globe. 
B)  Infant mortality rates have dropped by more than 60 percent. 
C)  A reduction in poverty: fewer than one million people across the globe go hungry each day. 
D)  Life expectancy has risen by 50 percent to seventy-eight years in the past century. 
E)  A decline in child malnutrition resulting in fewer than one million deaths annually.

Question 7

________ advanced the position that capitalism works best when the government has a role in moderating the basic welfare of all its citizens.

Accepted Answer

A)  John Keynes 
B)  Adam Smith 
C)  Karl Marx 
D)  Henry Ford 
E)  Immanuel Wallerstein 
A)  John Keynes 
B)  Adam Smith 
C)  Karl Marx 
D)  Henry Ford 
E)  Immanuel Wallerstein

Question 8

Horticulture is defined as:

Accepted Answer

A)  food production involving the domestication of animals. 
B)  cultivation involving permanent cultivation of the land. 
C)  practicing farming involving mechanization. 
D)  subsistence based on hunting, fishing, and gathering. 
E)  cultivation strategy with nonintensive use of land and labor. 
A)  food production involving the domestication of animals. 
B)  cultivation involving permanent cultivation of the land. 
C)  practicing farming involving mechanization. 
D)  subsistence based on hunting, fishing, and gathering. 
E)  cultivation strategy with nonintensive use of land and labor.

Question 9

Currently, the world is consuming natural resources at a rate ________ sustainable levels.

Accepted Answer

A)  25 percent less than 
B)  50 percent more than 
C)  100 percent less than 
D)  equal to 
E)  five hundred times 
A)  25 percent less than 
B)  50 percent more than 
C)  100 percent less than 
D)  equal to 
E)  five hundred times

Question 10

Following independence, many former colonies experienced:

Accepted Answer

A)  decreases in poverty. 
B)  rapid economic growth. 
C)  marked improvement in the standard of living. 
D)  a need to take on international debt. 
E)  greater income equality. 
A)  decreases in poverty. 
B)  rapid economic growth. 
C)  marked improvement in the standard of living. 
D)  a need to take on international debt. 
E)  greater income equality.

Question 11

Humans first began to produce food approximately:

Accepted Answer

A)  1,000 years ago. 
B)  200,000 years ago. 
C)  100 AD. 
D)  11,000 years ago. 
E)  2000 BC. 
A)  1,000 years ago. 
B)  200,000 years ago. 
C)  100 AD. 
D)  11,000 years ago. 
E)  2000 BC.

Question 12

Europeans extrapolated ________ from the New World in order to enter into the Chinese trade routes of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Accepted Answer

A)  corn 
B)  copper 
C)  gold 
D)  slaves 
E)  porcelain 
A)  corn 
B)  copper 
C)  gold 
D)  slaves 
E)  porcelain

Question 13

What distinguishes Wallerstein's notions of core, peripheral, and semiperipheral nations? Define each, and explain how they correlate to the concepts of colonial and postcolonial nations. After explaining the role of each in production or exchange networks, explain-using the example of Appalachia from the text-how a peripheral area can exist within a core. Provide a second example of how a core can exist within a periphery. How does the author account for this phenomenon?

Accepted Answer

Students should distinguish core areas a

Question 14

The goods exchanged in the Triangle Trade did not include:

Accepted Answer

A)  fur. 
B)  people. 
C)  sugar. 
D)  cotton. 
E)  drugs. 
A)  fur. 
B)  people. 
C)  sugar. 
D)  cotton. 
E)  drugs.

Question 15

In the United States, the system of taxation is a form of:

Accepted Answer

A)  redistribution. 
B)  balanced reciprocity. 
C)  negative reciprocity. 
D)  generalized reciprocity. 
E)  capitalism. 
A)  redistribution. 
B)  balanced reciprocity. 
C)  negative reciprocity. 
D)  generalized reciprocity. 
E)  capitalism.

Question 16

Neoliberal economic policies:

Accepted Answer

A)  promote state spending on health care to ensure a higher quality of life. 
B)  increase tariffs and taxes on industry to provide revenue for building the infrastructure. 
C)  advocate limiting the profits of international corporations. 
D)  have resulted in an overall improvement in living conditions across the globe. 
E)  seek to eliminate trade barriers across international boundaries and promote trade. 
A)  promote state spending on health care to ensure a higher quality of life. 
B)  increase tariffs and taxes on industry to provide revenue for building the infrastructure. 
C)  advocate limiting the profits of international corporations. 
D)  have resulted in an overall improvement in living conditions across the globe. 
E)  seek to eliminate trade barriers across international boundaries and promote trade.

Question 17

Underdevelopment is best defined as:

Accepted Answer

A)  a term used to suggest that poor countries are poor as a result of their relationship to an unbalanced global economic system. 
B)  a theory that predicts that former colonies would progress along the same lines as the industrialized nations. 
C)  a strategy by which wealthy nations would spur global economic growth by alleviating poverty by investing in former colonies. 
D)  a critique that argued that despite the end of colonialism, the underlying economic relations in the global economy had not changed. 
E)  a continued pattern of unequal economic relations despite the formal end of colonial political and military control. 
A)  a term used to suggest that poor countries are poor as a result of their relationship to an unbalanced global economic system. 
B)  a theory that predicts that former colonies would progress along the same lines as the industrialized nations. 
C)  a strategy by which wealthy nations would spur global economic growth by alleviating poverty by investing in former colonies. 
D)  a critique that argued that despite the end of colonialism, the underlying economic relations in the global economy had not changed. 
E)  a continued pattern of unequal economic relations despite the formal end of colonial political and military control.

Question 18

According to the text, many scholars trace the origins of the modern world economic system to:

Accepted Answer

A)  the expansion of the Holy Roman Empire. 
B)  Columbus's voyage to the New World. 
C)  the arrival of the Pilgrims in North America. 
D)  the Crusades. 
E)  the French settlement of Haiti. 
A)  the expansion of the Holy Roman Empire. 
B)  Columbus's voyage to the New World. 
C)  the arrival of the Pilgrims in North America. 
D)  the Crusades. 
E)  the French settlement of Haiti.

Question 19

As described in the textbook, early international trade routes existed between ________ more than two thousand years ago.

Accepted Answer

A)  North America and South America 
B)  the South Pacific and Hawaii 
C)  the Middle East and Southeast Asia 
D)  North America and eastern Africa 
E)  Central America and the Caribbean 
A)  North America and South America 
B)  the South Pacific and Hawaii 
C)  the Middle East and Southeast Asia 
D)  North America and eastern Africa 
E)  Central America and the Caribbean

Question 20

Balanced reciprocity can be described as:

Accepted Answer

A)  aims to build social relationships, with an obligation that the object returned will be of proportional value. 
B)  a form of exchange in which goods are collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern. 
C)  practices that reallocate resources among a group to maximize collective good. 
D)  exchanges that are made through bonds of affection, including among kin, without the expectation that they will be repaid in kind. 
E)  a pattern of exchange in which the parties seek to receive more than they give. 
A)  aims to build social relationships, with an obligation that the object returned will be of proportional value. 
B)  a form of exchange in which goods are collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern. 
C)  practices that reallocate resources among a group to maximize collective good. 
D)  exchanges that are made through bonds of affection, including among kin, without the expectation that they will be repaid in kind. 
E)  a pattern of exchange in which the parties seek to receive more than they give.

Negative reciprocity can be described as:

European colonialism was achieved through:

According to the text, ________ is a primary commodity exported from Côte d'Ivoire.

Haiti is a significant former colony because:

The "Triangle Trade" discussed in the text linked:

Which of the following does the author identify as a success the global economy has achieved in the past sixty years?

________ advanced the position that capitalism works best when the government has a role in moderating the basic welfare of all its citizens.

Horticulture is defined as:

Currently, the world is consuming natural resources at a rate ________ sustainable levels.

Following independence, many former colonies experienced:

Humans first began to produce food approximately:

Europeans extrapolated ________ from the New World in order to enter into the Chinese trade routes of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

The goods exchanged in the Triangle Trade did not include:

In the United States, the system of taxation is a form of:

Neoliberal economic policies:

Underdevelopment is best defined as:

According to the text, many scholars trace the origins of the modern world economic system to:

As described in the textbook, early international trade routes existed between ________ more than two thousand years ago.

Balanced reciprocity can be described as:

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Negative reciprocity can be described as:

European colonialism was achieved through:

According to the text, ________ is a primary commodity exported from Côte d'Ivoire.

Haiti is a significant former colony because:

The "Triangle Trade" discussed in the text linked:

Which of the following does the author identify as a success the global economy has achieved in the past sixty years?

________ advanced the position that capitalism works best when the government has a role in moderating the basic welfare of all its citizens.

Horticulture is defined as:

Currently, the world is consuming natural resources at a rate ________ sustainable levels.

Following independence, many former colonies experienced:

Humans first began to produce food approximately:

Europeans extrapolated ________ from the New World in order to enter into the Chinese trade routes of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

The goods exchanged in the Triangle Trade did not include:

In the United States, the system of taxation is a form of:

Neoliberal economic policies:

Underdevelopment is best defined as:

According to the text, many scholars trace the origins of the modern world economic system to:

As described in the textbook, early international trade routes existed between ________ more than two thousand years ago.

Balanced reciprocity can be described as:

Anthropology in a Global Age

Culture

Fieldwork and Ethnography

Language

Human Origins

Race and Racism

Ethnicity and Nationalism

Gender

Sexuality

Kinship, Family, and Marriage

Class and Inequality

Migration

Politics and Power

Religion

Health and Illness

Art and Media

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