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In the United States, individuals have complete freedom of choice when it comes to selecting a mate.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 2

According to the ____, the words and structure of a language cause the people who speak that language to perceive the world in distinct ways.
 
  a. hypothesis of linguistic relativity
  b. hypothesis of focal vocabularies
  c. theory of ethnocentrism
  d. theory of relativity
  e. view of culture as tool kit

Question 3

In the United States, the nuclear family tends to be neolocal and have bilateral descent.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 4

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that
 
  a. people are forever prisoners of their language.
  b. language and culture are fairly unrelated.
  c. exposure to another language can cause a person to become ethnocentric.
  d. functionalism is more plausible than conflict theory when studying culture.
  e. our view of the world depends on the particular language we have learned.

Question 5

Anthropologists are in agreement that no society has ever had a genuine matriarchal structure.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 6

Which of these is not true of the importance of language?
 
  a. Language helps transmit culture from generation to generation.
  b. Language frees human thought from the limits of time and place.
  c. Language is necessary for the creation of culture.
  d. Language serves as a guide to reality.
  e. Language determines how each of use thinks.

Question 7

The contemporary American family form is somewhere between classic nuclear and extended forms.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 8

____ are things that stand for or represent something else.
 
  a. Signs
  b. Symbols
  c. Beliefs
  d. Functions
  e. Values