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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Alone in a Crowded Universe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say about the numerous scientific approaches to aging that have been proposed and numerous theories that have been suggested?
(a) They all fall short of providing a suitable holistic answer to the problem.
(b) Some provide a suitable holistic answer to the problem.
(c) They are all suitable holistic answers to the problem.
(d) Only a few are suitable holistic anwers to the problem.

2. In most primates, sexually receptive females exhibit what?
(a) Brightly colored and swollen genitalia.
(b) Certain behaviors.
(c) Hidden estrus.
(d) Aggressive behaviors.

3. If a woman continued to deliver children as frequently as possible until death, what would happen to her?
(a) She would do nothing but reproduce.
(b) Her death would nearly positively result from childbirth.
(c) She would have a difficult time raising her children.
(d) She would be pregnant almost constantly for many decades.

4. Is the first criterion uniquely human?
(a) No.
(b) Maybe.
(c) Yes.
(d) In some cases.

5. How do adolescent bower bird males learn construction methods and decorative processes?
(a) They watch older males.
(b) They teach themselves.
(c) They create their own unique bowers.
(d) They watch each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. Do all animals that show artistic tendencies satisfy each criterion?

2. What final set of traits is clearly correlated to sexual attractiveness?

3. What primates are monogamous and solitary?

4. To qualify an object as art, the author suggests that it must fulfill how many qualities?

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

(see the answer key)

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