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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 is a fundamental aspect of humanity and in general is easy to determine even by non-experts?
(a) Religion.
(b) Country of origin.
(c) Race.
(d) Intelligence.

2. The disparate goals in sexuality between sexes have been extensively investigated where?
(a) In gorillas.
(b) In animal species.
(c) In humans.
(d) In chimpanzees.

3. Several languages are all derived from a common root language, which is generally referred to as what?
(a) PIE.
(b) PE.
(c) PA.
(d) PI.

4. Several scientifically rigorous genetic investigations of large populations conclusively demonstrate that roughly ______ percent of human children are not the genetic children of the male parent whom assumes genetic relatedness.
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 20.
(d) 25.

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 small groups of non-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 large groups of mated humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what are first contacts usually characterized?

2. How could one describe the factors involved in the formula?

3. In what did this population explosion and its enabler result?

4. To what did agriculture give rise?

5. The first human settlers of New Zealand hunted local large fauna to extinction within how many years?

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