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(1) Psychic unity of mankind is associated with the school of
(1) Diffusionism
(2) Evolutionism
(3) Neo-evolutionism
(4) Culture and Personality
Answer: Evolutionism
(2) The term Scheduled Tribes has been defined in the Indian Constitution under Article :
(1) 342
(2) 341
(3) 330
(4) 254
Answer: 342

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(3) Which of the following sites yielded earliest evidence of rice cultivation in India ?
(1) Mahadaha
(2) Chirand
(3) Koldihwa
(4) Barudih
Answer: Koldihwa
(4) Which of the following sites is not an iron age site ?
(1) Noh
(2) Atranjikhera
(3) Mundigak
(4) Ahichhatra
Answer: Mundigak
(5) Which of the following hills/mountains is known as “fertile crescent” ?
(1) Baluch hills
(2) Zagros mountain
(3) Ural mountain
(4) Aravalli hills
Answer: Zagros mountain
(6) Arrange the sequence of A.R. Radcliffe Brown’s analysis of structure-functionalism.
(1) Social Structure → Social Organization → Social Morphology → Social Physiology → Social Eunomia → Social Dysnomia.
(2) Social Structure → Social Organization → Social Eunomia →Social Dysnomia → Social Morphology → Social Physiology
(3) Social Structure → Social Morphology → Social Physiology → Social Organization i. Social Eunomia → Social Dysnomia
(4) Social Structure → Social Organization → Social Morphology → Social Physiology i. Social Dysnomia → Social Eunomia.
Answer: Social Structure → Social Organization → Social Morphology → Social Physiology → Social Eunomia → Social Dysnomia.
(7) Who was influenced by whom ?
(1) Herbert Spencer was influenced by Thomas Malthus and Charles Darwin.
(2) Thomas Malthus was influenced by Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.
(3) Charles Darwin was influenced by Thomas Malthus and Herbert Spencer.
(4) Charles Darwin was in no way influenced by Herbert Spencer and Thomas Malthus
Answer: Charles Darwin was influenced by Thomas Malthus and Herbert Spencer.
(8) What was the name of Charles Darwin’s epoch making book ?
(1) Natural Selection
(2) Survival of the Fittest
(3) The Origin of Species
(4) Essays on Population
Answer: The Origin of Species
(9) Who considered that human culture had developed from savagery through barbarism to civilization ?
(1) Herbert Spencer
(2) Charles Darwin
(3) Thomas Malthus
(4) Founding fathers of discipline of Anthropology.
Answer: Founding fathers of discipline of Anthropology.
(10) Whose book provided a readymade road map to evolutionism ?
(1) Any book of founding fathers of Anthropology.
(2) Book of Herbert Spencer
(3) Book of Thomas Malthus
(4) Book of Charles Darwin
Answer: Book of Charles Darwin
(11) Which one of the following is associated with the first use of fire in the course of human evolution ?
(1) Neanderthal Man
(2) Cro-Magnon Man
(3) Homo erectus
(4) Australopithecus
Answer: Homo erectus
(12) Who among the following discovered the first Dryopithecus mandible fossil in France ?
(1) Raymond Dart
(2) Louis Leakey
(3) Davidson Black
(4) Lartet
Answer: Lartet
(13) Which of the following is a geographical race as per Garn (1965) ?
(1) African
(2) Malay
(3) Caucasoid
(4) Mongoloid
Answer: African
(14) A child with blood group ‘O’ cannot have parents of blood groups
(1) A × B
(2) AB × O
(3) B × B
(4) O × O
Answer: AB × O
(15) A method of study which involves living as a member of the society under study and sharing in day-to-day activities is known as
(1) Participant observation
(2) Non-participant observation
(3) Survey method
(4) Case-Study method
Answer: Participant observation

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