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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, The Second Cloud.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is human sexuality an unusually developed trait for primates?
(a) Humans are monogamous.
(b) It is very connected to reproduction.
(c) Most primates rarely engage in sexual acts.
(d) It is largely divorced from reproduction.

2. What do some linguists convincingly argue about the complexity of language?
(a) It demands a biologically pre-determined capability for language.
(b) Only a few languages are truly complex.
(c) No language is extremely complex.
(d) It is more complex for some languages than others.

3. What are these risks?
(a) Nuclear holocaust, environmental holocaust, personal holocaust, and planetary holocaust.
(b) Nuclear holocaust.
(c) Nuclear holocaus, environmental holocaust, and planetary holocaust.
(d) Nuclear holocaust and environmental holocaust.

4. When do various physical illnesses and social disease arise?
(a) With the hunting to extinction of large species by the hunter-gatherer societies.
(b) When food is scarce.
(c) With the advent of agriculture and rising population densities.
(d) When various groups converge.

5. Is the first criterion uniquely human?
(a) Maybe.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) In some cases.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the Green Bank estimates indicate?

3. Why do races tend to remain established and distinct?

4. What does research show about those who are of one race and are raised by members of another race?

5. Does an analysis of today's few remaining hunter-gatherer societies suggest that the conventional wisdom is correct?

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