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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 the conventional wisdom suggest about pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies?
(a) They were simple but filled with intelligence.
(b) They were quite sophisticated with intelligent and powerful individuals.
(c) They were unique according to location and climate.
(d) They were crude organizations where individuals lived short, brutish, and violent lives.

2. What do paleopathology investigations demonstrate conclusively?
(a) 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.
(b) 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.
(c) 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.
(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.

3. When do various physical illnesses and social disease arise?
(a) When various groups converge.
(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 food is scarce.

4. How has this root language been reconstructed by linguists?
(a) From gluttonchronology and an analysis of the oldest existing texts known.
(b) From grabochronology and an analysis of the oldest existing texts known.
(c) From garbochronology and an analysis of the oldest existing texts known.
(d) From glottochronology and an analysis of the oldest existing texts known.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Is agriculture the golden solution for human survival?

2. What countries all have actively spread their languages over the world?

3. What do these creatures grow?

4. Several languages are all derived from a common root language, which is generally referred to as what?

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

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