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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, In Black and White.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does research show about those who are of one race and are raised by members of another race?
(a) They are attracted to the race in which they were raised.
(b) They are attracted to those of either race.
(c) They are attracted to those of their own race.
(d) They are not attracted to anyone of either race.

2. What is a theoretical pursuit that ponders the likely nature and possible existence of extra-terrestrial life and intelligence?
(a) Terrestriobiology.
(b) ETbiology.
(c) Extrabiology.
(d) Exobiology.

3. What physical traits tend to be significant for an individual's attraction to someone else?
(a) Traits that contrast with one's own.
(b) Traits that are not dominant in one's own.
(c) Traits that are different from one's own.
(d) Traits that closely approximate their own.

4. Why do many scientists believe human infants learn language?
(a) Because they must survive through that language.
(b) Because they speak their own language as infants and toddlers.
(c) Because they possess biological linguistic adaptations.
(d) Because they, like all creatures, have the capacity to understand some vocalizations.

5. What does evidence suggest about how long race has been a characteristic of modern humans?
(a) A somewhat short time.
(b) A very short time.
(c) A very long time.
(d) A somewhat long time.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author believe that humans and chimps should properly be considered to be?

2. What does the author think of the second criterion?

3. The author then considers the nearly uniquely human feature of female estrus?

4. Why does the author suggest this about an optimal organism?

5. What have a few captive gorillas and chimpanzees been taught to do?

(see the answer key)

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