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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. How is this possible that these people could achieve all of this?
(a) They could easily reproduce and travel.
(b) The animals were very weak.
(c) They were powerful.
(d) They were very intelligent.

2. How are the most rudimentary human languages termed?
(a) As piggins and creeles.
(b) As podgkins and crocoles.
(c) As pigeons and croles.
(d) As pidgins or creoles.

3. When do chimps, humans, and gorillas break off from the remaining higher primates?
(a) C. 20 millions of years ago.
(b) C. 15 millions of years ago.
(c) C. 10 millions of years ago.
(d) C. 5 millions of years ago.

4. What is a prevalent habit among modern peoples of all time?
(a) Look to toward the future and imagine the turmoil that will be taking place.
(b) To look toward the future and imagine it as a sort of golden age.
(c) Look to the past and imagine it as a horrible time of misunderstanding and ignorance.
(d) To look toward the distant past and imagine it as a sort of golden age where contemporaneous problems did not exist.

5. What did Neanderthals apparently master?
(a) Creating the wheel.
(b) Language.
(c) Painting.
(d) Fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. One percent of North American birds have become extinct since what year?

2. When do chimpanzees diverge from pygmy chimpanzees?

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

4. What other creatures practice a form of agriculture?

5. In what did this population explosion and its enabler result?

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