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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ability is granted to the male animal counterpart?
(a) It can disappear.
(b) It can fly.
(c) It can be transferred.
(d) It can live underwater.

2. Who is immune to attack?
(a) Anyone over age 50.
(b) Children.
(c) Tribe shaman.
(d) Women with older children.

3. What is most common for men?
(a) Violent death.
(b) Bad teeth.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Malaria.

4. Children often become:
(a) Currency.
(b) Traded away.
(c) Orphaned.
(d) Cause for war.

5. Typically, what is the smallest number of people that live in a Yanomamo village?
(a) 10.
(b) 40.
(c) 50.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group tends to have the largest tribes?

2. Which is not among the possessions of a "wealthy" woman?

3. What is an important part of the tribe's mythology?

4. Chagnon often gave a child medicine for which ailment?

5. Which is not a time when violence tends to break out?

(see the answer key)

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