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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. Is agriculture the golden solution for human survival?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Only in the United States.
(d) In some cultures.

2. When do various physical illnesses and social disease arise?
(a) With the advent of agriculture and rising population densities.
(b) When various groups converge.
(c) When food is scarce.
(d) With the hunting to extinction of large species by the hunter-gatherer societies.

3. When was agriculture first being practiced?
(a) 10,000 years ago.
(b) 1,000,000 years ago.
(c) 1,000 years ago.
(d) 100,000 years ago.

4. What traits are extremely highly important to sexual attractiveness?
(a) Religion, ethnic background, race, socioeconomic status, age, and political views.
(b) Socioeconomic status, ethnic background, and appearance.
(c) Physical attractiveness and intelligence.
(d) Religion, intelligence, and socioeconomic status.

5. What other traits are highly connected to sexual attractiveness?
(a) Measures of socioeconomic status and measures of intelligence.
(b) Measures of physical attractiveness.
(c) Measures of personality and measures of intelligence.
(d) Measures of personality and measures of physical attractiveness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does one of the most instructive avenues of investigation in human sexual attraction involve?

3. What primates are monogamous and solitary?

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

5. Why are studies of sexual attractiveness in humans difficult to do?

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