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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 largely reject this belief?
(a) Many animals have the capabilities to love.
(b) Many animals understand each other and other species.
(c) Many animals are capable of learning new information.
(d) Many animals and most mammals use vocalizations; clearly, they convey some sense of meaning.

2. What does the author say about the numerous scientific approaches to aging that have been proposed and numerous theories that have been suggested?
(a) They are all suitable holistic answers to the problem.
(b) They all fall short of providing a suitable holistic answer to the problem.
(c) Only a few are suitable holistic anwers to the problem.
(d) Some provide a suitable holistic answer to the problem.

3. What did Charles Darwin realize about many organisms' traits?
(a) They do not appear to give any survival benefit, and some are adverse to survival.
(b) They sometimes have survival benefits.
(c) They often have survival benefits.
(d) They always have survival benefits.

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

5. Is the third art criterion uniquely human?
(a) Yes.
(b) Maybe.
(c) In some cases.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is this purely biological viewpoint on sexual encounters enormously complicated?

2. In Chapter 1, to what is the species Homo sapiens compared and contrasted?

3. What have a few captive gorillas and chimpanzees been taught to do?

4. What does the author conclude about art?

5. The artistic endeavors of what animals are presented and considered?

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