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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What overcomes Chagnon on the first day in the field?
(a) Scurvy.
(b) Dysentery.
(c) Culture shock.
(d) Typhoid.

2. Smaller tribes are referred to as:
(a) Splinters.
(b) Lesser tribes.
(c) Suburbs.
(d) Under tribes.

3. Despite scant clothing, Chagnon refers to the people as being:
(a) Rigid.
(b) Reserved.
(c) Puritanical.
(d) Modest.

4. One tribe is almost always _______ to/with another.
(a) In debt.
(b) Infuenced
(c) At war.
(d) Peace.

5. Clothing for the Yanomamo consists mainly of which of the following?
(a) Pelts.
(b) Shorts.
(c) Palm fronds.
(d) Strings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What may happen to visitors upon entering the village?

2. Storing people in a tree assists:

3. What is avoided by the tribe?

4. Which is an early morning activity?

5. What is a shabono?

(see the answer key)

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