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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. Ideals of beauty vary ___________________ from culture to culture.
(a) Somewhat.
(b) Slightly.
(c) Not at all.
(d) Enormously.

2. To what did agriculture give rise?
(a) Organizations.
(b) Social settings.
(c) Class divisions.
(d) Technology.

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

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

5. 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 mated humans.
(b) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from large groups of non-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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is used to corroborate the evidence?

2. What do paleopathology investigations demonstrate conclusively?

3. When was agriculture first being practiced?

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

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

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