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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. What does one of the most instructive avenues of investigation in human sexual attraction involve?
(a) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from small groups of non-mated humans.
(b) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from large groups of mated humans.
(c) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from large groups of non-mated humans.
(d) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from small groups of mated humans.

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

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

4. Why does the author reason "like marries like?"
(a) Due to childhood imprinting.
(b) Due to genetics.
(c) Due to education.
(d) Due to the media.

5. What do paleopathology investigations demonstrate conclusively?
(a) The health of the average pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer human was superior in nearly all respects to the health of an average early agricultural human.
(b) The health of the average pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer human was inferior in nearly all respects to the health of an average early agricultural human.
(c) The health of the average pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer human was similar in nearly all respects to the health of an average early agricultural human.
(d) The health of the average pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer human was the same in nearly all respects to the health of an average early agricultural human.

Short Answer Questions

1. There are undoubted benefits of agriculture that come with what?

2. What physical traits tend to be significant for an individual's attraction to someone else?

3. What does Chapter 5 begin by examining?

4. What does the conventional wisdom suggest about pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies?

5. How has this root language been reconstructed by linguists?

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