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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, Accidental Conquerors.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what is every reproductive event for a human female filled?
(a) Fear.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Love.
(d) Danger.

2. To what did agriculture give rise?
(a) Social settings.
(b) Organizations.
(c) Technology.
(d) Class divisions.

3. Why do many scientists believe human infants learn language?
(a) Because they must survive through that language.
(b) Because they speak their own language as infants and toddlers.
(c) Because they, like all creatures, have the capacity to understand some vocalizations.
(d) Because they possess biological linguistic adaptations.

4. What is the Green Bank formula?
(a) A mathematical process that putatively determines the number of intelligent species in the universe.
(b) A political organization.
(c) An organic blood bank.
(d) A bank that is beneficial for the environment.

5. What is an optimal organism?
(a) One that has a few maximized parts rather than one that is equally balanced.
(b) One that is balanced because a few maximized parts do not create an optimal organism.
(c) One that has a few maximized parts.
(d) One that is balanced and has a few maximized parts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is the third art criterion uniquely human?

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

3. What strongly reinforces the desire for racially distinct partners?

4. What is today's human population?

5. There are undoubted benefits of agriculture that come with what?

(see the answer key)

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