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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. What does this society not show?
(a) The inability to think critically.
(b) An interest in hunting and gathering.
(c) Innovation or variability over vast geological areas and enormous time spans.
(d) The lack of innovation once thought.

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

3. To qualify an object as art, the author suggests that it must fulfill how many qualities?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

4. This view on sexual strategies is completely consistent with what?
(a) The standard accepted theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
(b) The standard accepted theory of evolution by means of sexual selection.
(c) The standard accepted view of only a few cultures.
(d) The standard view of most cultures.

5. What does the author conclude about art?
(a) It appears to be found in an advanced form in a variety of species.
(b) It appears to be uniquely human in advanced form.
(c) It is not found in any species.
(d) It appears to be uniquely human.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of the bowers?

2. What does the author state about the gap between animal vocalizations and human language?

3. What sexual strategy does the author say individual humans should adopt?

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

5. Why must women be highly selective in extra-marital sexual partners?

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