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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. In what did this population explosion and its enabler result?
(a) A mixture of emigrants and native peoples.
(b) The mating of emigrants with native peoples.
(c) Organized, permanent villages of native peoples.
(d) Massive emigrations and displacements of native peoples.

2. What does research show about those who are of one race and are raised by members of another race?
(a) They are not attracted to anyone of either race.
(b) They are attracted to those of either race.
(c) They are attracted to those of their own race.
(d) They are attracted to the race in which they were raised.

3. What sexual strategy does the author say individual humans should adopt?
(a) One that maximizes their individual reproductive success.
(b) One that is monogamous.
(c) One that is the safest.
(d) One that is polygamous.

4. Does an analysis of today's few remaining hunter-gatherer societies suggest that the conventional wisdom is correct?
(a) Yes.
(b) Only in certain climates in the world.
(c) No.
(d) In some cultures.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Is agriculture the golden solution for human survival?

2. How are the most rudimentary human languages termed?

3. Somewhat less than 100,000 years ago, who replaced the Neanderthals?

4. In most primates, sexually receptive females exhibit what?

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

(see the answer key)

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