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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. 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) The use of the dominant language.
(b) A new rudimentary communication system.
(c) War.
(d) Hatred and misunderstanding.

2. Why are studies of sexual attractiveness in humans difficult to do?
(a) Humans are difficult to trust.
(b) Humans do not want to take place in studies.
(c) Humans often lie.
(d) Human studies must rely on subjective interviews or careful examination of secondary effects.

3. To what is the pair bonding found among humans probably due?
(a) The inordinately high burden of childcare found within human societies.
(b) The difficulty of surviving on one's own.
(c) The need for a permanent mate.
(d) The need for having many children.

4. How do adolescent bower bird males learn construction methods and decorative processes?
(a) They teach themselves.
(b) They create their own unique bowers.
(c) They watch older males.
(d) They watch each other.

5. When do chimpanzees diverge from pygmy chimpanzees?
(a) C. 10 millions of years ago.
(b) C. 5 millions of years ago.
(c) C. 2 millions of years ago.
(d) C. 6 millions of years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is generally considered uniquely human?

2. How is this purely biological viewpoint on sexual encounters enormously complicated?

3. The artistic endeavors of what animals are presented and considered?

4. The author presents a greatly simplified view of the evolutionary process where numerous uncertain elements are noted but dismissed. For what does this allow?

5. What does the author say about any human trait?

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