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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. Eventually A. robustus became extinct and A. africanus gave rise to who?
(a) Homo sapiens.
(b) Homo ergaster.
(c) Homo habilis.
(d) Homo erectus.

2. With what is every reproductive event for a human female filled?
(a) Danger.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Love.
(d) Fear.

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

4. What other creatures practice a form of agriculture?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Ants.
(c) Mice.
(d) Fleas.

5. What is a prevalent habit among modern peoples of all time?
(a) Look to toward the future and imagine the turmoil that will be taking place.
(b) To look toward the future and imagine it as a sort of golden age.
(c) To look toward the distant past and imagine it as a sort of golden age where contemporaneous problems did not exist.
(d) Look to the past and imagine it as a horrible time of misunderstanding and ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author conclude about art?

2. What does the author conclude about a species' long-term survival probability?

3. What is the Green Bank formula?

4. What race was heavily built and physically powerful with a very large brain case?

5. Is the first criterion uniquely human?

(see the answer key)

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