Anthropology Model question Paper : www.ugc.ac.in University Grant Commission
ANTHROPOLOGY
Paper – II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two
(2) marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. Inbreeding and consanguinity manifest these genes to express their effect
(A) Dominant genes
(B) Sex-linked genes
(C) Recessive genes
(D) Sex-limited genes
2. Habitual striding bipeds are
(A) Chimpanzees
(B) Gorillas
(C) Humans
(D) Gibbons
3. DNA fingerprinting was developed by
(A) Steele & Berg
(B) Watson & Crick
(C) Griffith
(D) Alec Jeffreys
4. Phenylketonuria is due to thedeficiency of an enzyme
(A) Phenylalanine hydroxylase
(B) Glyoxalase
(C) Adenosine Deaminase
(D) Glutamate Pyruvate
5. An ‘O’ blood group child cannot have parents with
(A) A Group
(B) B Group
(C) O Group
(D) AB Group
6. The ‘bush babies’ who live in many African forests are
(A) Galagos
(B) Baboons
(C) Monkeys
(D) Chimpanzees
7. Who among the following was the proponent of the term “Ethnic Group” to describe human populations ?
(A) Falconer
(B) Pearson
(C) Ashley Montagu
(D) Penrose
8. The first discovery of an Australopithecine was made by
(A) L.S.B. Leakey
(B) Raymond Dart
(C) Robert Broom
(D) F. Clark Howell
9. Who among the following has given a detailed explanation of ‘Rite-de- Passage’ ?
(A) Edmund Leach
(B) Ruth Benedict
(C) Van Gennep
(D) Marcel Mauss
10. Which Article of the Indian Constitution provides that there shall be a Minister of Tribal Welfare for the States of Bihar, MP and Orissa ?
(A) Article 332
(B) Article 46
(C) Article 164
(D) Article 275
11. Functionalism can be best describedas a
(A) study of cause and effect relationship
(B) study of inter-relatedness of the parts of a whole
(C) holistic study conceptualisingthe whole only
(D) study of human changing behaviour
12. The main difference between the questionnaire and schedule is
(A) Mode of operation
(B) Physical form
(C) Language
(D) Question format
13. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?
(A) The Foundation of Social Anthropology : S.F. Nadel
(B) The Political System of Highland Burma : Edmund Leach
(C) Caste in Modern India and other Essays : Iravati Karve
(D) Patterns of Culture : Ruth Benedict
14. When a woman is simultaneously married to two or more brothers, it is called
(A) Fraternal Polyandry
(B) Levirate
(C) Group Marriage
(D) Sororate
15. In Anthropology, the process by
which a child learns its own culture is known as
(A) Acculturation
(B) Self-learning
(C) Enculturation
(D) Socialization
16. The Three Age System was postulated by
(A) L.S.B. Leakey
(B) Lowier R. Binford
(C) C.J. Thomson
(D) A.L. Kroeber
17. The first deliberate human burials are found in
(A) Aurignacian culture
(B) Solutrean culture
(C) Sohanian culture
(D) Mousterian culture
18. The Palaeolithic Art in the form of paintings, engravings and carvings coexisted for the first time during
(A) Lower Palaeolithic period
(B) Upper Palaeolithic period
(C) Middle Palaeolithic period
(D) All the above periods
19. The book “The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan” was authored by
(A) H.D. Sankalia and V.N. Misra
(B) Robert Bruce Foote and Henry Foote
(C) B.B. Lal and S.P. Gupta
(D) Bridget and Raymond Allchin
20. The Megaliths found in India were systematically classified by
(A) V.D. Krishnaswamy
(B) K.D. Bannerjee
(C) H.D. Sankalia
(D) K. Soundararajan
21. Assertion (A) : Consanguinity in human population is a result of random mating. Reason (R) : It promotes the manifestation of recessive genes. On the basis of the above, choose the correct answer.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true
(B) (A) is false, (R) is true
(C) (R) is true, (A) is false
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false
22. Assertion (A) : Diabetes mellitus is a simple disease. Reason (R) : It is caused by an enzyme deficiency. On the basis of the above, choose the correct answer.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(C) (R) is true, (A) is false.
(D) (A) is true, (R) is false.c
Last edited by mariammal; January 19th, 2012 at 11:42 AM.
February 27th, 2012, 10:49 PM
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I am Tasmina Rahman, I have completed my M.A in Anthropology in 2012 and I am appearing in this coming U.G.C NET DECEMBER 2012, so I need the answer key for the December 2011 Anthropology paper II and also the answer key for the other previous year papers of Anthropology paper II.