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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, The Golden Age That Never Was.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what is every reproductive event for a human female filled?
(a) Love.
(b) Danger.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Fear.

2. What happens to all animals?
(a) They age and eventually die.
(b) They mate.
(c) They survive.
(d) They care for one another.

3. What kept this group of people isolated for so long?
(a) Inaccessible terrain and topography of New Guinea.
(b) They were the only people in New Guinea.
(c) Inaccessible terrain and topography of the Canary Islands.
(d) They were the only people in the Canary Islands.

4. What is alarming about what the Europeans did?
(a) It was considered normal.
(b) It was looked upon as a successful process.
(c) It was something no other Europeans had done.
(d) It was looked upon as shocking.

5. By what are first contacts usually characterized?
(a) Dryness and irritation.
(b) Uncertainty and friendship.
(c) Violence and misunderstanding.
(d) Large meals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whenever two groups with disparate developed languages come into occasional contact that, for social reasons, precludes the use of one or the other languages, what arises?

2. Around 500,000 years ago, H. erectus appears to have given rise to who?

3. What is the result of this evidence?

4. Is extra-marital sex approached differently by men than by women?

5. How are humans unique among primates?

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