Wape villagers avoid quarreling with each other because:

a. they are afraid that a ghost will misdirect a bullet and kill a quarreling person during hunting.
b. they believe that a hunter misses his prey only because of the intervention of ancestral ghosts who are angry with quarreling in the community.
c. they know they will be put in jail by the New Guinea government.
d. a hunter will refuse to loan his gun to a quarreling person.
e. the ancestors will go away from their villages if they quarrel.


ANSWER: b

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