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

2. What other creatures practice a form of agriculture?
(a) Fleas.
(b) Ants.
(c) Mice.
(d) Dogs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of this evidence?

2. Ideals of beauty vary ___________________ from culture to culture.

3. When was agriculture first being practiced?

4. What does Chapter 5 begin by examining?

5. What primates are monogamous and solitary?

(see the answer key)

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