In a(n) ________, women's status should be highest.

A. horticultural society experiencing considerable population pressure
B. tropical foraging society
C. pastoral society
D. agricultural society
E. industrial state with high unemployment


Answer: B

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a. hatred and intolerance of people who are gender variant and/or homosexual is not universal. b. gender norms throughout the world are biologically based. c. there is virtually universal agreement that same-sex unions and cross-gender behavior is deviant. d. anthropologists have not recognized the importance of multiple gender identities.

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Religion and magic don't just explain things and help people accomplish goals-they also enter the realm of human feelings. In other words,

A. religion helps reduce differences by promoting brotherly love. B. they are psychologically and cognitively relevant, but these realms are well contained and have no effect beyond the mental well-being of the practitioner. C. they often lead to extreme psychological disruption and even mental illness. D. they serve emotional needs as well as cognitive (i.e., explanatory) ones. E. they determine the emotional well-being of all their practitioners.

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Between the 1920s and the 1950s, Egyptian peasants found themselves __________

A. producing cotton on a larger and larger scale B. drawn into the industrial workforce C. forced to abandon agricultural towns like Kafr El-Elow D. having to deal with declining agricultural productivity

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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Vitruvius’s work was misunderstood in the Renaissance mostly because his drawings were naïve and unclear. 2. Serlio interpreted Vitruvius in light of a contemporaneous interest in perspective. 3. Serlio then set about to discover a way to change scenery, something he perfected with his chariot-and-pole system invented by about 1650.

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