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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, In Black and White.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author think of the second criterion?
(a) It has nothing to do with humans making art.
(b) It is unanswerable and therefore not applicable to the debate.
(c) It is uniquely human.
(d) It is the most significant of the criteria.

2. What is the conclusion based on the art criteria?
(a) Various animals satisfy the demands of art.
(b) Only humans satisfy the demands of art.
(c) No animals satisfy the demands of art.
(d) Only a few animals satisfy the demands of art.

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

4. What countries all have actively spread their languages over the world?
(a) Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the Netherlands.
(b) China, Japan, India, Cambodia, and Thailand.
(c) Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, and Jordan.
(d) England, Spain, Portugal, France, and Russia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kept this group of people isolated for so long?

2. About 200,000 years ago, H. sapiens appears to have diverged into two distinct lineages usually known as what?

3. What is considered by most scientists to be uniquely human?

4. There is a strong correlation between sexual size dimorphism and what?

5. The disparate goals in sexuality between sexes have been extensively investigated where?

(see the answer key)

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