Which of the following is an example of an American urban legend?
A) Students must wait 15 minutes for a late professor before they can leave.
B) George Washington admitted that he chopped down a cherry tree.
C) Coyote impersonates the creator and tries to make men.
D) The grasshopper plays all summer while the hardworking ant collects food.
Answer: A
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Which of the following options is an example of a discourse genre members of societies must learn?
A diatribes B relationships C locative D computational E conversational
Francesco d'Errico and his colleagues believe that Neandertals:
A. created and used their own tools B. created bone jewelry C. could create objects with symbolic meaning D. all of these
The Clovis tradition, a sophisticated stone technology based on a sharp point that was fastened to the end of a hunting spear, flourished (widely but briefly) in the central plains and in what is now the eastern United States. Until recently, the Clovis people were considered the first settlers of the Americas. Recent research now suggests, however, that
A. the Americas were settled by one haplogroup—a lineage marked by one or more specific genetic mutations. B. the wheel, which has never been found in Clovis sites, was a critical part of an even earlier arrival to the Americas. C. the members of the Clovis tradition depended on the domestication of horses to make travel possible. D. various groups of colonists entered the Americas, but they all used the same route. E. most likely the Americas were settled by several colonists who came at different times, perhaps by different routes, and had different physiques and genetic markers, which continue to be discovered and debated.
Which of the following is true of the Hudson-Meng site in northwest Nebraska?
a. Taphonomic research suggests that humans played little, if any, role in the deaths of the 500 bison at the site. b. The presence of hundreds of projectile points among the bison bone strongly suggests the bison were dispatched by human hunters. c. The presence of unequivocal cutmarks on many of the bison bone provides strong evidence of butchery by humans. d. The fact that most of the bison bones were highly disarticulated and scattered provides evidence of butchering by humans. e. Based on studies elsewhere the bison were determined to have been shot, or they froze to death or died of old age.