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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. Do all animals that show artistic tendencies satisfy each criterion?
(a) In most cases.
(b) In all cases.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

2. What did European settlers find when they first arrived in Tasmania?
(a) It was inhabited by an estimated 15,000 black native inhabitants.
(b) It was inhabited by an estimated 1,000 black native inhabitants.
(c) It was inhabited by an estimated 5,000 black native inhabitants.
(d) It was inhabited by an estimated 10,000 black native inhabitants.

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

4. What happens to all animals?
(a) They mate.
(b) They survive.
(c) They age and eventually die.
(d) They care for one another.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What countries all have actively spread their languages over the world?

2. How many species does the author suggest currently exist on earth?

3. What is a prevalent habit among modern peoples of all time?

4. What is alarming about what the Europeans did?

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

(see the answer key)

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