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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. What does the author say about the numerous scientific approaches to aging that have been proposed and numerous theories that have been suggested?
(a) Only a few are suitable holistic anwers to the problem.
(b) They are all suitable holistic answers to the problem.
(c) Some provide a suitable holistic answer to the problem.
(d) They all fall short of providing a suitable holistic answer to the problem.

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

3. What is considered by most scientists to be uniquely human?
(a) Language.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Learning.
(d) Love.

4. When was agriculture first being practiced?
(a) 100,000 years ago.
(b) 1,000,000 years ago.
(c) 10,000 years ago.
(d) 1,000 years ago.

5. What sexual strategy does the author say individual humans should adopt?
(a) One that is polygamous.
(b) One that maximizes their individual reproductive success.
(c) One that is the safest.
(d) One that is monogamous.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what does the author derive clues regarding a species' long-term survival probability?

2. How is this possible that these people could achieve all of this?

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

4. Eventually A. robustus became extinct and A. africanus gave rise to who?

5. By what do many suggest that today's societal ills could be eliminated?

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