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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. When do various physical illnesses and social disease arise?
(a) With the advent of agriculture and rising population densities.
(b) When food is scarce.
(c) With the hunting to extinction of large species by the hunter-gatherer societies.
(d) When various groups converge.
2. What does one of the most instructive avenues of investigation in human sexual attraction involve?
(a) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from large 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 small groups of mated humans.
(d) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from small groups of non-mated humans.
3. What final set of traits is clearly correlated to sexual attractiveness?
(a) Socioeconomic status.
(b) Nearly all physical traits.
(c) Personality.
(d) Religion.
4. What is the result of this evidence?
(a) Several thousand "words" which are considered likely to be very similar to the original language.
(b) Several "words" which are considered likely to be very similar to the original language.
(c) Several hundred "words" which are considered likely to be very similar to the original language.
(d) Several dozen "words" which are considered likely to be very similar to the original language.
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 the same 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 similar in nearly all respects to the health of an average early agricultural human.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why are studies of sexual attractiveness in humans difficult to do?
2. Do non-human primates demonstrate any predilection to agricultural practices?
3. What does Chapter 5 begin by examining?
4. Ideals of beauty vary ___________________ from culture to culture.
5. Is agriculture the golden solution for human survival?
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