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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 did Neanderthals apparently master?
(a) Fire.
(b) Creating the wheel.
(c) Painting.
(d) Language.

2. Whenever two groups with disparate developed languages come into occasional contact that, for social reasons, precludes the use of one or the other languages, what arises?
(a) A new rudimentary communication system.
(b) Hatred and misunderstanding.
(c) War.
(d) The use of the dominant language.

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

4. When do humans separate?
(a) C. 2 millions of years ago.
(b) C. 15 millions of years ago.
(c) C. 6 millions of years ago.
(d) C. 10 millions of years ago.

5. What is the purpose of the bowers?
(a) To attract females for mating.
(b) To show off for other males.
(c) To protect them from the elements.
(d) To raise their young.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the fact that the many vocalizations among groups of the same species vary significantly from group to group indicate?

2. What does the author say about the numerous scientific approaches to aging that have been proposed and numerous theories that have been suggested?

3. What happens to all animals?

4. Is the third art criterion uniquely human?

5. This view on sexual strategies is completely consistent with what?

(see the answer key)

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