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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many hours per day do the members of the tribe work?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 9.

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

3. What is most common for men?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Dysentery.
(c) Bad teeth.
(d) Violent death.

4. This group also has a larger than average share of which of the following?
(a) Abducted women.
(b) Children.
(c) Modern tools.
(d) Root crops.

5. Tribe members jealously guard which of the following?
(a) Spirits.
(b) Names.
(c) Food.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which animal is least desired as food?

3. Typically, what is the largest number of people that live in a Yanomamo village?

4. Chagnon quickly realizes he may have to abandon which task?

5. Villages may be so far apart that it takes how many days to reach them on foot?

(see the answer key)

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