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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long are the chosen submitted to fasting?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 3 days.

3. What is the first month of the dry season?
(a) March.
(b) June.
(c) September.
(d) December.

4. What is the name for a person's animal counterpart?
(a) Noreshi.
(b) Maharishi.
(c) Noakini.
(d) Familiar.

5. What adjective best describes older women?
(a) Caring.
(b) Caustic.
(c) Anti-social.
(d) Doting.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is important for children to learn about which of the following at a young age?

2. What is often expected in exchange for assistance from another tribe?

3. What is the average length of a woman's ability to reproduce?

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

5. What is a shabono?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the common practice in regards to sharing within the tribe?

2. Explain the basic structure of the village including the shabono.

3. What expression is used among the Yanomamo for romantic love?

4. What types of food would most likely be found in the tribe's gardens?

5. What are the hallucinogens used and how are they prepared?

6. Explain the items created out of technology in the Yanomamo tribe.

7. Describe the climate and how it affects the tribe.

8. How do the Yanomamo separate everything on earth?

9. What indicates the passage of boy into manhood?

10. What is a "noreshi?" Why is it important?

(see the answer keys)

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