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#	Question	Subject and topic	Difficulty
1381	The division of the world into the sacred and the profane is central to the theory of religion of	Anthropology Religion and belief	Easy
1382	A healer makes a small clay image of an enemy and pierces it, believing this will harm the person. This illus…	Anthropology Religion and belief	Medium
1383	Members of a clan regard the tortoise as their ancestor and never kill or eat it. This practice is an example…	Anthropology Religion and belief	Medium
1384	Malinowski observed that Trobriand islanders performed elaborate magic before open-sea fishing but not before…	Anthropology Religion and belief	Hard
1385	Shifting cultivation in north-east India is commonly known as	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Easy
1386	The Toda of the Nilgiri hills are traditionally associated with	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Easy
1387	A small group moves seasonally through a forest collecting honey, roots and game, owns few possessions and sh…	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Medium
1388	Shepherds of the Himalayas take their flocks to high pastures in summer and down to the valleys in winter. Th…	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Medium
1389	Why does intensive plough agriculture usually support larger and more stratified societies than foraging?	Anthropology Subsistence strategies	Hard
1390	Which political unit is typically a small, mobile, egalitarian group of foragers with informal leadership?	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Easy
1391	Power that is accepted by people as legitimate is called	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Easy
1392	A village headman holds office because his father and grandfather held it before him, as custom requires. Acc…	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Medium
1393	In a village, a man who repeatedly breaks rules is mocked, avoided and not invited to feasts, though no court…	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Medium
1394	A society has a hereditary chief who collects produce from several villages and redistributes it at feasts, b…	Anthropology Traditional political systems	Hard
1395	The idea that the language a person speaks influences how he or she perceives the world is called the	Anthropology Language and culture	Easy
1396	A child of Tamil-speaking parents is adopted at birth and raised in a Punjabi-speaking family. The child will…	Anthropology Language and culture	Easy
1397	Hindi has separate words for father's brother and mother's brother, while English uses only "uncle". This bes…	Anthropology Language and culture	Medium
1398	A student speaks Marathi at home, English in class and a mix of both with friends, switching smoothly. This p…	Anthropology Language and culture	Medium
1399	Human language allows people to talk about ancestors who died long ago and plans for next year. This property…	Anthropology Language and culture	Hard
1400	Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam belong to which language family?	Anthropology Diversity in India	Easy