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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, The Golden Age That Never Was.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What languages dominate the world?
(a) Indonesian derived languages.
(b) European derived languages.
(c) Asian derived languages.
(d) Indo-European derived languages.

2. How are humans unique among primates?
(a) They are both social and monogamous.
(b) They perform sexual acts frequently.
(c) The are isolated and monogamous.
(d) They are both social and polygamous.

3. Why does the author largely reject this belief?
(a) Many animals understand each other and other species.
(b) Many animals are capable of learning new information.
(c) Many animals have the capabilities to love.
(d) Many animals and most mammals use vocalizations; clearly, they convey some sense of meaning.

4. Somewhat less than 100,000 years ago, who replaced the Neanderthals?
(a) Crypton man.
(b) Cro-Magnon man.
(c) Homo habilis.
(d) Homo erectus.

5. What did European animals include?
(a) Numerous species of small-bodied domesticated animals.
(b) Numerous species of small-bodied carnivorous, wild animals.
(c) Numerous species of large-bodied carnivorous, wild animals.
(d) Numerous species of large-bodied herding animals, which were domesticated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Green Bank formula?

2. Why does the author suggest this about an optimal organism?

3. What does the fact that the many vocalizations among groups of the same species vary significantly from group to group indicate?

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

5. What does the author once again consider regarding extra-marital sex?

(see the answer key)

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