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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Animal Origins of Art.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 equally balanced to survive most incidences.
(c) 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.
(d) Humans are likely to survive accidents so more energy should be put into child-rearing.

2. What does evidence suggest about how long race has been a characteristic of modern humans?
(a) A somewhat short time.
(b) A somewhat long time.
(c) A very short time.
(d) A very long time.

3. What final set of traits is clearly correlated to sexual attractiveness?
(a) Nearly all physical traits.
(b) Personality.
(c) Socioeconomic status.
(d) Religion.

4. How do scientists know that about four millions of years ago the first proto-human hominids began to walk upright?
(a) Footprints have been left by these proto-human hominids.
(b) From analyzing skeletal limb changes discovered in the fossil record.
(c) The food eaten by the proto-human hominids is different than previous species.
(d) The skeletons of chimpanzees have been found from the same time period.

5. What does the author think of the second criterion?
(a) It is uniquely human.
(b) It has nothing to do with humans making art.
(c) It is unanswerable and therefore not applicable to the debate.
(d) It is the most significant of the criteria.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do adolescent bower bird males learn construction methods and decorative processes?

2. What is a fundamental aspect of humanity and in general is easy to determine even by non-experts?

3. What other traits are highly connected to sexual attractiveness?

4. Why does a parallel process not exist for men?

5. Who are the chimps' closest living relatives?

(see the answer key)

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