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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. Women are seldom allowed to use which item?
(a) Pots.
(b) Blankets.
(c) Makeup.
(d) Outhouse.

2. Women work hard to protect which part of a child?
(a) Soul.
(b) Body temperature.
(c) Skull.
(d) Heart.

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

4. What food is commonly consumed by the tribe?
(a) Papaya.
(b) Coconuts.
(c) Poi.
(d) Plantains.

5. The Bisaasi-teri tribe of Kaobawa live at the confluence of which two rivers?
(a) Ventuari and Tucoyo.
(b) Orinoco and Mavaca.
(c) Apure and Orinoco.
(d) Mavaca and Portugeusa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "shabori?"

2. What is the name for a person's animal counterpart?

3. What represents the spirit of a woman?

4. Most of the clearing in the garden is done using which tool?

5. The mortality rate is high for which sector of the tribe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the Yanomamo concept of babies and their souls.

2. Describe the basic facts of the Yanomamo.

3. Describe the Yanomamo view on jaguars and cannibalism.

4. Discuss the location and traveling habits of the Bisaasi-teri tribe.

5. Examine the Yanomamo way of storytelling.

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

7. In what other ways is poison used?

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

9. Examine morning routines during peace and war times.

10. How might a woman deal with an abusive husband?

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