Glendale Community College » Anthropology » Anthropology 102 - Cultural Anthropology » Summer 2022

Question #1

Since women have little property, what do they sometimes give as gifts to co-wives or mothers-in-law

A. beaded jewelry

B. cattle horns

C. gourds

D. children

E. chalk drawings

Question #2

According to myth, why did women stay home and let their herd animals go wild

A. to wait for a warrior lover

B. to eat a kidney

C. Ogun tricked the first woman by laying elephant dung outside her hut

D. husbands barred the front of huts with dirt and sticks

E. Coyote sang out in the voice of a lion and women stayed at the encampment to protect their sons and daughters

Question #3

When warriors become elders they are blessed with chalk in order to

A. allow them to blend into the forested area as they hunt zebras for their ritual clothing

B. protect from the evil eye

C. to ensure they are successful in arranging for a wife

D. to mark the movement back to his parents village

Question #4

In the wedding ceremony, what do the other women claim is wrong with the new bride's husband's cattle?

A. they have rabies

B. he has lost them all with his bridewealth

C. they are blind and lame

D. they are greedy and will require much work to keep them fat

E. they refuse to chew the cud

Question #5

When a man dies,

A. his cattle are divided equally to his sons

B. a woman can divide the cattle among dead man's children according to how she sees fit

C. his wife inherits his cattle

D. the cattle a woman has milking rights to are passed to her sons alone