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Question #1
In Big Man societies the motivation for sponsorship of festivals and feasts may be
A.
to get fat
B.
to charge admission and make a profit
C.
to receive tribute
D.
to give away everything in order to gain prestige
Question #2
George Dalton and Karl Polanyi both spoke of the embedded economy This term indicates
A.
that in some societies economic activity is embedded in social relationships
B.
that people often conduct economic activities from their beds
C.
certain key trading posts, or enclaves, can be embedded in resource-rich locations
D.
that a desire for material gain is embedded in the psyche of all people
Question #3
Collective ownership of the means of the production is evident in (choose all that apply)
A.
Car pools
B.
When people collect valuable resources, such as gold
C.
When clans or lineages own productive resources, such as agricultural plots
D.
When foragers gather together at swimming holes
Question #4
What occurs as you move toward the more intensive end of the cultivating continuum
A.
increased egalitarianism
B.
longer fallow periods
C.
increased reliance on swidden cultivation
D.
increased leisure time
E.
decreasing marginal returns relative to labor input
Question #5
Market systems of exchange may require
A.
open spaces for merchants to set up their booths
B.
economic nomadism
C.
foraging capitalists
D.
state-level political organizations to guarantee property and provide regulations
Question #6
What are the two forms of pastoralism (Pick all that apply),,
A.
Transmontane
B.
nomadism
C.
Lackadaisical
D.
Transhumance
E.
Tropical
Question #7
A mode of production refers to
A.
a society in which there is a single most frequent profession or the statistical mode
B.
getting ice cream as a job benefit a la mode
C.
Making things with models from the Latin modus
D.
a cultural system of technology, property ownership, and social relationships
Question #8
Shifting cultivation
A.
requires cultivators to change plots of land every 2 to 3 years
B.
requires some form of irrigation
C.
cannot support permanent villages
D.
relies extensively on chemical fertilizers
E.
is typically associated with use of draft animals
Question #9
Markets systems of exchanges are most commonly found in
A.
pastoralists
B.
foraging societies
C.
horticultural societies
D.
intensive agriculturalists
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