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#	Question	Subject and topic	Difficulty
61	Pit dwellings and burials of dogs with humans are associated with which Neolithic site?	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Easy
62	The Great Bath is a famous structure at	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Easy
63	An industry of pebble choppers and chopping tools in the Siwalik foothills of the north-west is named after t…	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Medium
64	Why were the houses at Burzahom built partly below ground level?	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Medium
65	Which group of features best shows that Harappan cities were planned?	Anthropology Important archaeological sites	Hard
66	A family consisting of a husband, wife and their unmarried children is called a	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Easy
67	Marriage of one woman to several men at the same time is called	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Easy
68	Among the Khasi, children take their clan name from their mother and property passes mainly through women. Th…	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Medium
69	After the death of her husband, a woman marries his younger brother as expected by custom. This practice is k…	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Medium
70	In a community, a person must marry within the same caste but outside his or her own clan. This combines	Anthropology Family, marriage and kinship	Hard
71	Who gave the classic definition of culture as a "complex whole" acquired by man as a member of society?	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Easy
72	Judging other cultures as inferior by the standards of one's own culture is called	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Easy
73	An anthropologist studying a food taboo explains it in terms of the community's own ecology and beliefs, with…	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Medium
74	The potato, first domesticated in South America, became a common food in India without Indians and South Amer…	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Medium
75	A tribal community living for decades beside a town adopts the town's dress, language and festivals while kee…	Anthropology Culture and cultural change	Hard
76	Belief in spirits and souls, regarded by Tylor as the earliest form of religion, is called	Anthropology Religion and belief	Easy
77	The division of the world into the sacred and the profane is central to the theory of religion of	Anthropology Religion and belief	Easy
78	A healer makes a small clay image of an enemy and pierces it, believing this will harm the person. This illus…	Anthropology Religion and belief	Medium
79	Members of a clan regard the tortoise as their ancestor and never kill or eat it. This practice is an example…	Anthropology Religion and belief	Medium
80	Malinowski observed that Trobriand islanders performed elaborate magic before open-sea fishing but not before…	Anthropology Religion and belief	Hard