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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Yanomamo are well known for:
(a) Passivity.
(b) Embellishment.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Spiritualism.

2. What is one main chore for girls?
(a) Tending to elderly.
(b) Fetching water.
(c) Making arrows.
(d) Learning to count.

3. Typically, what is the largest number of people that live in a Yanomamo village?
(a) 75.
(b) 250.
(c) 100.
(d) 300.

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

5. Which is not among the things children are taught to identify at an early age?
(a) Insects.
(b) Animals.
(c) Rival tribe members.
(d) Plants.

6. The mortality rate is high for which sector of the tribe?
(a) Infants.
(b) Teens.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

7. Which group tends to have the largest tribes?
(a) Highlanders.
(b) Lower Tribes.
(c) Lowlanders.
(d) Upper Tribes.

8. What is avoided by the tribe?
(a) Jungle.
(b) White men.
(c) Rivers.
(d) Mountains.

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

10. What fiber is most commonly used by the tribes?
(a) Wool.
(b) Soft wood.
(c) Reeds.
(d) Cotton.

11. What item causes Bahimi to kill an infant?
(a) Milk.
(b) Evil spirits.
(c) Tribal law.
(d) Superstition.

12. What adjective is often used to describe tribal women?
(a) Submissive.
(b) Clumsy.
(c) Arrogant.
(d) Rude.

13. To which tribe does the helper belong?
(a) Lower Bahimi.
(b) Upper Bisaasi-teri.
(c) Koamashima.
(d) Pashmina.

14. What is a "shabori?"
(a) Shaman.
(b) Father.
(c) Ceremonial chalice.
(d) Hat.

15. For the tribes everything is put into which two categories?
(a) Life and Death.
(b) Culture and War.
(c) Nature and Culture.
(d) Nature and Non-nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the average divorce rate?

2. Which is not among the vegetarian foods coveted by the Yanomamo?

3. There is no word in the Yanomamo language for:

4. Clothing for the Yanomamo consists mainly of which of the following?

5. The term "brother" is often used to describe:

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