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1. Nomadic pastoralists have permanent settlements; and complete households shift location with the herd. House structures are highly stable, such as a tent or yurt.

• True
• False

2. Which of the following does not generally characterize pastoral societies?

• seasonal changes of residence
• communal ownership of grazing lands
• economic independence from surrounding agricultural societies
• communal ownership of animals

3. Which environment is least likely to be inhabited by pastoralists?

• grasslands
• savannahs
• tropical forests
• deserts

4. Redistribution involves:

• the exchange of goods between people already associated with each other.
• the systematic movement of wealth toward an administrative center and its reallocation by authorities.
• the exchange of goods at prices.
• the exchange of goods between neighbors.

5. The sororate is a marriage custom in which:

• a widow is expected to marry the brother or another close relative of her dead husband.
• a widower is expected to marry the sister or another close relative of his dead wife.
• a man marries his stepsister.
• a man takes his brother's widow as a wife.

6. A potlatch is:

• feast held by Tahitians to celebrate a marriage.
• involves a highly elaborate form of kula.
• takes place in the Trobriand Islands.
• is a form of redistribution exchange.

7. Polynesian chiefs:

• must use their personal charisma and skill to gain their positions of leadership.
• have to personally obligate their followers to support them.
• have inherited positions that followers are culturally obligated to support.
• can support warfare, crafts, and the redistribution of goods, but on a smaller scale than Big Men.

8. A Big Man's position differs from a chief's position in that it:

• is not based on wealth.
• is based on personal skills and charisma.
• is an ascribed status.
• is reinforced through supernatural authority.

9. Warfare in chiefdoms differs from conflict in tribal society because:

• there is no warfare in tribal society.
• warfare in chiefdoms is for territorial expansion but not in tribes.
• is blood revenge in chiefdoms and not in tribes.
• is over females in tribes.

10. Which position of leadership is an ascribed position?

• Headmen
• Big Men
• Chiefs
• Presidents