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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 alarming about what the Europeans did?
(a) It was considered normal.
(b) It was looked upon as a successful process.
(c) It was something no other Europeans had done.
(d) It was looked upon as shocking.

2. What does Chapter 2 present?
(a) A detailed description of Pan.
(b) A brief overview of chimpanzee evolution.
(c) A brief overview of human evolution.
(d) A detailed description of the first Homo.

3. Of what have several researchers focused on the vocalizations?
(a) Wild Canadian Geese.
(b) Domesticated donkeys.
(c) Wild vervet monkeys.
(d) Wild African Zebras.

4. Why does the author suggest this about an optimal organism?
(a) Humans can survive without various body parts, so more energy can go into everyday living.
(b) Humans are simply not likely to experience survival after having a limb severed and thus the expense of maintaining limb-regeneration capability would rob energy and resources from other, more significant, capabilities that are more likely to be needed.
(c) Humans are likely to survive accidents so more energy should be put into child-rearing.
(d) Humans are equally balanced to survive most incidences.

5. Why is human sexuality an unusually developed trait for primates?
(a) It is very connected to reproduction.
(b) Humans are monogamous.
(c) It is largely divorced from reproduction.
(d) Most primates rarely engage in sexual acts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author argue about the life span of humans?

2. Is agriculture the golden solution for human survival?

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

4. What does the author say about any human trait?

5. Do most racial traits appear to have any meaningful influence on environmental fitness?

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