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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. When do gorillas then separate?
(a) C. 5 millions of years ago.
(b) C. 15 millions of years ago.
(c) C. 10 millions of years ago.
(d) C. 20 millions of years ago.

2. What physical traits tend to be significant for an individual's attraction to someone else?
(a) Traits that are not dominant in one's own.
(b) Traits that closely approximate their own.
(c) Traits that contrast with one's own.
(d) Traits that are different from one's own.

3. The human penis is largely used for what?
(a) Attracting the female.
(b) Male-female display.
(c) A higher frequency of sexual activity.
(d) Male-male display.

4. What does the author note about studies done on woodpeckers?
(a) Woodpecker traits are found plentifully in other bird species and most of the traits necessary to be a woodpecker have come together only once during evolution
(b) Woodpecker traits are only found in other bird species.
(c) Woodpecker traits are found plentifully in other bird species and yet all of the traits necessary to be a woodpecker have come together only once during evolution.
(d) Woodpecker traits are found only slightly in other bird species and yet all of the traits necessary to be a woodpecker have come together only once during evolution.

5. By what do many suggest that today's societal ills could be eliminated?
(a) Look to the past as a way to learn from previous mistakes.
(b) Working toward a better future and an era of peace and environmental purity.
(c) A return to a fondly remembered era of peace and environmental purity.
(d) Enjoy the present, since there is not much hope in the future.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Europeans do to these people?

3. What languages dominate the world?

4. Ideals of beauty vary ___________________ from culture to culture.

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

(see the answer key)

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