It takes many years of practice for people to master the muscular movements needed to produce the precise sounds of any particular language

a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false


True

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In an example of applied anthropology's contribution to improving education, this chapter describes a study of Puerto Rican seventh graders in a Midwestern U.S. urban school (Hill-Burnett, 1978). What did anthropologists discover in this study?

A. Puerto Rican students came from a background that placed less value on education than did that of white students. B. The Puerto Rican students' education was being affected by their teachers' misconceptions. C. The parents of Puerto Rican students did not value achievement. D. The Puerto Rican subjects benefited from the English-as-a-foreign-language program. E. Puerto Ricans do not benefit from bilingual education.

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Chiromancy is divination based on the "reading" of:

a. palms. b. shoulder blades. c. tea leaves. d. pebbles. e. smoke patterns.

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Northern Tanzania and the Afar region of Ethiopia have yielded some of the most famous and informative glimpses into hominin evolution. Which of the following statements about fossil finds in these areas is FALSE?

A. The fossils from both Laetoli and Hadar, although clearly hominin, were similar in many ways to chimps and gorillas. B. Although the fossils from these two regions were deposited half a million years apart, their many resemblances justify including them all as part of the same species, Homo habilis. C. The Laetoli site in northern Tanzania yielded a series of fossilized footprints. D. The fossils from both Laetoli and Hadar are representative of Au. afarensis. E. Lucy, a tiny hominin female who lived around 3 m.y.a., was found in the Hadar site in the Afar region of Ethiopia.

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What does it mean when we say that money serves as a "divisible"?

What will be an ideal response?

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