The word pair ________ is a minimal pair in Standard American English.

A. pit/bit
B. fat/get
C. gal/legal
D. ped/pedal
E. goof/off


Answer: A

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Seventy percent of the world’s population practices polygyny

a. True b. False

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What is Project Minerva? What about the Human Terrain System? What concerns have these Pentagon programs raised among anthropologists? In your view, what role (if any) should academics play in national security?

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following is NOT a reason why class is important, according to global identity theorists?

a. Lower classes tend to fragment along ethnic lines and compete against each other. b. The power of states to “manufacture consent” declines as economic and political elites operate according to increasing transnational interests. c. Immigrants tend to remain closely linked to their home countries. d. In global popular culture, the world’s middle classes tend to eat food from the same restaurants, watch the same movies, and buy the same books and other consumer goods.

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