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Multiple Choice 1. In “Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi,” Patten notes that in Malawi culture, goats have traditionally been seen as a. walking bank accounts. b. animals bred solely for milk production. c. animals that don’t provide enough in resources to warrant raising them. d. nuisance animals that eat the crops grown by villagers. 2. According to Patten in “Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi,” the UDLP planned to provide a. village elders with goats to collectively raise and milk for the all of the village’s children. b. the male head of household a milk-producing goat to raise and use for the nutritional needs of his entire family. c. the male head of household a goat to raise and slaughter for meat. d. the woman of each household with a milk-producing goat to raise and use for her children’s nutritional needs. 3. In “Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi,” Patten notes that some villages were not good candidates for the social research project due to a. a language barrier between the anthropologists and the villagers. b. an ongoing problem of animal theft. c. the elders’ resistance to the plan. d. the resistance of women head-of-households in those villages. 4. According to Patten in “Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi,” the “hungry season,” the time between the consumption of the last of the stored harvest and the first harvest of the new season, now often begins in _________ and ends in __________. a. June; November b. December; March c. September; March d. March; September 5. In “Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi,” Patten notes that the UDLP project to teach women how to raise and care for goats, and to incorporate milk into their children’s food, was a. flatly rejected by the village leaders. b. so popular that it quickly had more participants than it could accommodate. c. too difficult for the women of the villages to undertake. d. failed due to the theft of goats by people in other villages. 6. From the research Patten’s team conducted, they learned that a. women in the villages headed 50 percent of all households. b. each household had an adult male regularly living with them. c. over 35 percent of the children were underweight for their age. d. 20 percent of the women were illiterate. 7. In “Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi,” Patten notes that by 2004, a. onethird of the women still had their original project animal. b. half of the women had lost their original animals to theft. c. only one woman had sold her animal before it had produced a viable kid. d. village elders had taken control of all of the buck stations and had begun charging for its services.  Â