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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. Does an analysis of today's few remaining hunter-gatherer societies suggest that the conventional wisdom is correct?
(a) In some cultures.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Only in certain climates in the world.

2. In Chapter 1, to what is the species Homo sapiens compared and contrasted?
(a) Pan tropyldytes
(b) Tan propyldytes.
(c) Tan proglodytes.
(d) Pan troglodytes.

3. Where is there a disparity regarding adulterous relationships?
(a) Between the legal consequences for men and women engaging in adulterous relationships.
(b) Between the religious consequences for men and women engaging in adulterous relationships.
(c) Between the guilt felt by men and women engaging in these types of relationships.
(d) Between the benefits for men and women engaging in these types of relationships.

4. How are human females nearly unique among animals?
(a) They carry their children for nine months prior to birth.
(b) In menopause.
(c) They produce live young.
(d) They are assisted by a male when raising children.

5. Around 500,000 years ago, H. erectus appears to have given rise to who?
(a) The first modern H. habilis.
(b) The first modern H. sapiens.
(c) The first modern H. ergaster.
(d) The first modern H. georgicus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Are smoking, drinking, and drug use universal human traits?

2. What does evidence suggest about how long race has been a characteristic of modern humans?

3. What does this society not show?

4. Why are studies of sexual attractiveness in humans difficult to do?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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