Sample Test Questions for Exam 2

This is a practice "quiz" of 10 questions.  Your exam will consist of 50 multiple choice questions (see review).  The questions below represent the type of wording, format, or content you can expect to find on your actual exam. 

Write the letters of the correct answers down on a sheet of paper.  At the end of the page, click the link to the answers and compare results. 

1. Which of the following is most consistent with a sex determination of male?

   1. Narrow epicondylar width

   2. Wide epicondylar width

   3. Wide sciatic notch

   4. Narrow bicondylar breadth

   5. Ventral arc

2. What is included in a forensic anthropologist's inventory?

   
   

   1. Types, model numbers of calipers used

   2. Products, materials used in the bone analysis

   3. All skeletal elements present for examination

   4. Chemicals used in the defleshing process

   5. A list of formulas used to calculate the probabilities of what sex and ancestry the unknown remains are likely to be

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3. Sharp superior orbital (or supraorbital) margins indicate:
    

   1. European ancestry

   2. Asian/Native American ancestry

   3. African American ancestry

   4. Female

   5. Male

4. People of Asian and or Native American descent have a higher probability of having:

   1. Shovel-shaped incisors

   2. A Carabelli's cusp

   3. Squarish eye orbits

   4. A prominent nasal spine

   5. Taller crania

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5. Which of the following best characterizes "race"?

   
   

   1. It is a cultural concept, not a biological reality.

   2. It is a biological reality, not a cultural concept.

   3. It is the most important component of the biological profile to establish.

   4. It can only be determined if you first know the sex of the individual.

   5. Race is the most important aspect of the biological profile to identify.

6. Which of the following yields the most reliable sex determination?

   1. Subpubic angle

   2. Humeral head diameter

   3. Metacarpal length

   4. Cranial muscle markings

   5. Femoral curvature

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7. In Maples, Chapter 5 "Flotsam and Jetsam", the cases center around:

   1. Disposing dead bodies in the ocean, lakes, rivers, etc.

   2. Gunshot deaths

   3. Decomposition variation on land versus water

   4. Dismemberments

   5. Problems with ancestry estimation

    

8. Regarding skeletal features of indicative of ancestry, which of the following is true?

   1. Typically, not all of the features are consistent with only one ancestral population

   2. Estimating ancestry from the skull is so challenging that it is almost never attempted

   3. The best feature to examine is the eye orbit

   4. Sex should be determined first

   5. The vertebrae are considered the most reliable indicator of ancestry

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9. When skeletal traits indicate more than one likely ancestry, this is called:
    

   1. Dual population affinity

   2. Admixture

   3. Commingling

   4. Hybridization

   5. Multi-phenotypic display

10. Sex can be estimated from the proportions of the manubrium and gladiolus--two bones of the sternum.  What would indicate a typical female sternum?:

    1. A gladiolus (body) that is less than twice the length of the manubrium

    2. A gladiolus (body) that is more than twice the length of the manubrium

    3. A gladiolus (body) that is rounder than the manubrium

    4. A gladiolus (body) that is more rectangular than the manubrium

    5. A gladiolus (body) that is more porous than the manubrium

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