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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. The human penis is largely used for what?
(a) Male-female display.
(b) A higher frequency of sexual activity.
(c) Attracting the female.
(d) Male-male display.

2. What enabled Europeans to pursue their conquests?
(a) They had more people than the native people.
(b) They had a better understanding about the natural world around them.
(c) They carried social diseases, had better technology, used advanced writing, and featured large-scale political organizations.
(d) They were more powerful and more intelligent.

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

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

5. What does research show about those who are of one race and are raised by members of another race?
(a) They are not attracted to anyone of either race.
(b) They are attracted to those of either race.
(c) They are attracted to those of their own race.
(d) They are attracted to the race in which they were raised.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do adolescent bower bird males learn construction methods and decorative processes?

2. What example does Darwin give to support his theory?

3. Several languages are all derived from a common root language, which is generally referred to as what?

4. What is today's human population?

5. What do paleopathology investigations demonstrate conclusively?

(see the answer key)

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