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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, Horses, Hittites, and History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ideals of beauty vary ___________________ from culture to culture.
(a) Not at all.
(b) Enormously.
(c) Slightly.
(d) Somewhat.

2. What do these creatures grow?
(a) Fungus gardens.
(b) Weeds.
(c) Grass.
(d) Flowers and herbs.

3. What does the author conclude about agriculture?
(a) It is the superior form of providing food.
(b) It is a mixed blessing practiced by humans.
(c) It is essential to human survival.
(d) It is the inferior form of providing food.

4. When do various physical illnesses and social disease arise?
(a) When food is scarce.
(b) With the advent of agriculture and rising population densities.
(c) With the hunting to extinction of large species by the hunter-gatherer societies.
(d) When various groups converge.

5. Does an analysis of today's few remaining hunter-gatherer societies suggest that the conventional wisdom is correct?
(a) In some cultures.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Only in certain climates in the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the most intriguing results of this analysis is the observation of ___________________________.

2. What languages dominate the world?

3. To what did agriculture give rise?

4. What other creatures practice a form of agriculture?

5. What is used to corroborate the evidence?

(see the answer key)

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