Multiple Choice
1. How do anthropologists classify the Nez Perce story about Coyote and Wishpoosh?
A. apocalyptic myth
B. salvation myth
C. children’s myth
D. creation myth
ANS: D TYPE: Applied
PG: 31
2. Where are the Nez Perce located?
A. eastern Oregon and Idaho
B. Washington and western Montana
C. Tennessee and eastern Kentucky
D. Massachusetts and New York
ANS: A TYPE: Factual
PG: 31
3. Evolution can be described as:
A. an anti-Creationist account of the origin of life
B. the foundation of culture in contemporary society
C. the major organizing principle of the biological sciences
D. the major organizing principle of the social sciences
4. What is the difference between evolution and theories of evolution?
A. evolution is a fact, but some people prefer to see it as theory
B. biologists accept evolution as a fact, but theories explain how it works
C. evolution explains all change and the theories explain contemporary change
D. there is no difference between these two
5. Which of the following statements is false?
A. evolution explains diversity through scientific language using hypotheses
B. evolution explains diversity through scientific language using theories
C. evolution can explain diversity and creation myths cannot
D. creation myths and evolutionary accounts do not differ
6. Which scientist developed the Systema Naturae?
A. Aristotle
B. Carolus Linnaeus
C. Jean Lamarck
D. Charles Darwin
7. Which of the following best describes the “Great Chain of Being” approach?
A. a creation myth discovered by the Greeks in the 1st century AD
B. an early scientific description of the inanimate world based on form
C. a classification of animate life-forms only, with humans at the very top
D. a categorization of animate and inanimate forms based on observable similarities
8. The “Great Chain of Being” was first developed by:
A. Herodotus
B. Aristotle
C. Galileo
D. Sophocles