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According to the passage, the case of the Penan foragers’ cultivation of the sago palm fails to indicate that

(A) a co-evolutionary argument is unnecessary to establishing that rain-forest adaptation is the effect of human intervention
(B) plant-species inimical to carbohydrate-rich species would continue to thrive without the practices of foraging peoples
(C) the "thinning" effect produced by the Penan’s foraging practice is responsible for the sago palm’s long-term survival
(D) the Penan have justification for abandoning the exploitation of sago palms or relocating to more carbohydrate-rich areas
(E) rain forests may evolve as a result of the quantity and availability of extant carbohydrate-rich species

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In mentioning dreams, fantasies, and actions (line 12) the author supports the claim that ego-centered conscious is not really self-sufficient (lines 14-15) by implying which of the following

(A) Dreams, fantasies and actions tend to be hereditary phenomenon, suggesting that one’s culture plays the most primary role in shaping one’s consciousness.
(B) Certain elements of consciousness deserve repression of which the consciousness is not sufficiently capable.
(C) Other elements of consciousness, such as cultural archetypes, affect the human experience than those of which human beings are directly aware.
(D) Most dreams, fantasies and actions occur peripherally to the center of the ego.
(E) The symbolic archetypes in the collective unconscious tend to play a greater role than the personal unconscious in shaping the ego.

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The author of the passage mentions which of the following as posing an alternative to the Headland Hypothesis

(A) Rain forests have always possessed insufficient quantities of carbohydrate-rich resources to support foragers without the aid of agriculturalists.
(B) The difficulty of raising carbohydrate-rich plant species in certain areas of the rain forest may have led to the arrest of those species’ co-evolution.
(C) Trade relationships between agriculturalists and foragers may have been the cause of the disappearance of certain carbohydrate-rich plant species, not vice-versa.
(D) Foragers may have been willing to trade carbohydrate-rich plants in exchange for the more nutritious food products of agriculturalists.
(E) Environmental changes in rain forest composition may have led to the loss of certain foraging techniques.