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1 |  |  Until 10,000 years ago, all human groups used which of the following subsistence strategies? |
|  | A) | agriculture |
|  | B) | foraging |
|  | C) | horticulture |
|  | D) | pastoralism |
|  | E) | reciprocity |
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2 |  |  Which of the following groups is an example of a foraging society? |
|  | A) | Kwakiutl |
|  | B) | Yanomami |
|  | C) | Qashqai |
|  | D) | Ifugoa |
|  | E) | Basseri |
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3 |  |  What is the basic social unit of foragers? |
|  | A) | the tribe |
|  | B) | the clan |
|  | C) | lineage |
|  | D) | the band |
|  | E) | the totem |
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4 |  |  Which of the following factors of production does horticulture make intensive use of? |
|  | A) | land |
|  | B) | labor |
|  | C) | capital |
|  | D) | machinery |
|  | E) | Horticulture does not make intensive use of any of the above factors of production. |
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5 |  |  Which of the following is commonly found in both horticultural and nonindustrial agricultural societies? |
|  | A) | irrigation |
|  | B) | slash and burn techniques to clear land |
|  | C) | terracing |
|  | D) | use of domestic animals for transportation, cultivating machines, and manure |
|  | E) | None of the above are commonly found in both horticultural and nonindustrial agricultural societies. |
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6 |  |  Horticulture is characterized by which of the following? |
|  | A) | the use of terraces |
|  | B) | the use of a fallow period |
|  | C) | the use of domestic animals |
|  | D) | irrigation systems |
|  | E) | intensive cultivation |
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7 |  |  Agriculture is characterized by all of the following except: |
|  | A) | the use of terraces. |
|  | B) | irrigation systems. |
|  | C) | the use of domestic animals. |
|  | D) | the use of a fallow period. |
|  | E) | intensive cultivation. |
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8 |  |  Which of the following is not an environmental effect of intensive agriculture? |
|  | A) | deforestation |
|  | B) | concentration of organic wastes |
|  | C) | increased environmental diversity |
|  | D) | increased environmental uniformity |
|  | E) | All of the above are environmental effects of intensive agriculture. |
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9 |  |  The mode of production refers to: |
|  | A) | the way in which production is organized. |
|  | B) | the major productive resources of an economy including the land, labor, technology, and capital. |
|  | C) | the rational allocation of scarce resources to alternative ends. |
|  | D) | the profit-oriented system principle of exchange in which goods and services are bought and sold, and values are determined by supply and demand. |
|  | E) | the exchange between social equals. |
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10 |  |  The means of production refers to: |
|  | A) | the way in which production is organized. |
|  | B) | the rational allocation of scarce resources to alternative ends. |
|  | C) | the profit-oriented system principle of exchange in which goods and services are bought and sold, and values are determined by supply and demand. |
|  | D) | the major productive resources of an economy including the land, labor, technology, and capital. |
|  | E) | the exchange between social equals. |
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11 |  |  What is a replacement fund? |
|  | A) | the time and energy devoted to replacing the calories used during a person's daily activity |
|  | B) | the time and energy devoted to maintaining items essential to production |
|  | C) | the time and energy devoted to helping friends, relatives, in-laws, and neighbors |
|  | D) | the time and energy devoted to the performance of rituals |
|  | E) | the time and energy a person must render to a superior individual or agency for access to land |
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12 |  |  What is the market principle? |
|  | A) | the movement of goods, services, and resources from the local level to a central administrative location, then back to the local level |
|  | B) | the exchange of goods, services, and resources between social equals |
|  | C) | the rational allocation of scarce means to alternative ends |
|  | D) | the exchange of goods, services, and resources in a market-place |
|  | E) | the use of money to buy and sell things at prices determined by supply and demand |
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13 |  |  With which kind of reciprocity is something given and nothing is expected in return? |
|  | A) | negative reciprocity |
|  | B) | generalized reciprocity |
|  | C) | reciprocity |
|  | D) | balanced reciprocity |
|  | E) | market reciprocity |
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14 |  |  Which of the following statements about negative reciprocity is not true? |
|  | A) | Negative reciprocity usually involves dealing with people outside or on the fringes of your social system. |
|  | B) | Silent trade is an example of negative reciprocity. |
|  | C) | Stealing is an extreme form of negative reciprocity. |
|  | D) | Negative reciprocity cannot be practiced by a society that already practices generalized reciprocity. |
|  | E) | Negative reciprocity involves the attempt to get something for as little as possible. |
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15 |  |  With balanced reciprocity, a person: |
|  | A) | tries to get something for as little as possible. |
|  | B) | exchanges with people only within his or her nuclear family. |
|  | C) | gives and expects something in return, which may not come immediately, but the giver will be upset if the person who received the gift does not reciprocate the exchange. |
|  | D) | uses money to buy and sell goods and services. |
|  | E) | tries to rationally allocate scarce means or resources to alternative ends. |
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