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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event was significant to the Yanomamo?
(a) Cutting down the rainforest.
(b) Industrial revolution.
(c) Hurricane.
(d) Gold rush.

2. Men who have killed are often rewarded with which of the following?
(a) Children.
(b) Extra food.
(c) Wives.
(d) Goats.

3. What adjective describes the neighbors as they wait for acceptance?
(a) Impatient.
(b) Eager.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Bored.

4. What is the hope when trading women?
(a) Getting an especially fertile woman.
(b) Avoiding civil rights groups.
(c) Get a better one.
(d) Gaining more than the other tribe.

5. What kind of connections are possessed by Hukoshadadama?
(a) Fragile.
(b) Tenuous.
(c) Rumored.
(d) Genealogical.

6. What keeps tribes coming back to other villages?
(a) Women.
(b) Gifts.
(c) Wine.
(d) Song.

7. Which is not a time when violence tends to break out?
(a) During visits.
(b) During exchanges.
(c) During feasts.
(d) During trading expeditions.

8. What might have caused the illnesses to the tribes?
(a) Miners.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Severe cold.
(d) Locusts.

9. Each village of capable of what?
(a) Basket weaving.
(b) Sustaining itself.
(c) Warfare.
(d) Contacting the dead.

10. It takes a long time to develop what between tribes?
(a) Animosity.
(b) Trade routes.
(c) Communication.
(d) Trust.

11. Which is not typically taken during a raid?
(a) Tools.
(b) Women.
(c) Food.
(d) Children.

12. Who tends to cook most of the food for the feasts?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) Children.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

13. What skill had some of the tribe attained in Chagnon's absence?
(a) Speak english.
(b) Drive.
(c) Read.
(d) Write.

14. Brazilian officials ignore all complaints except for which ones?
(a) Looting.
(b) Rape.
(c) Arson.
(d) Theft.

15. The tribes have a tendency toward:
(a) Impromptu dancing.
(b) Getting drunk.
(c) Firewalking.
(d) Violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many arrow points were taken from Matowa?

2. What is not often returned immediately?

3. Which is not part of the trading network?

4. What type of behavior is shown by the tribe leader to Chagnon?

5. What is the name of the warrior that was shot?

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