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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. There are undoubted benefits of agriculture that come with what?
(a) Notable drawbacks.
(b) Notable benefits.
(c) Significant benefits.
(d) Minor drawbacks.

2. How selective are humans across an array of traits?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Minimally.
(c) Slightly.
(d) Highly.

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

4. Do non-human primates demonstrate any predilection to agricultural practices?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Only chimpanzees.
(d) Some.

5. Why are studies of sexual attractiveness in humans difficult to do?
(a) Humans are difficult to trust.
(b) Humans do not want to take place in studies.
(c) Humans often lie.
(d) Human studies must rely on subjective interviews or careful examination of secondary effects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What primates are monogamous and solitary?

2. When do various physical illnesses and social disease arise?

3. What do paleopathology investigations demonstrate conclusively?

4. Does an analysis of today's few remaining hunter-gatherer societies suggest that the conventional wisdom is correct?

5. What languages dominate the world?

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