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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 does the author believe that humans and chimps should properly be considered to be?
(a) One species in two genera.
(b) One species within a single genus.
(c) Two species in two genera.
(d) Two species within a single genus.

2. What do these creatures grow?
(a) Grass.
(b) Weeds.
(c) Flowers and herbs.
(d) Fungus gardens.

3. With what does the chapter conclude?
(a) An ethical discussion about the implications of classifying chimps as Homo.
(b) Why chimps should not be classified as Homo.
(c) The differences between humans and chimps.
(d) A discussion about the similarities between humans and chimps.

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

5. About 200,000 years ago, H. sapiens appears to have diverged into two distinct lineages usually known as what?
(a) Homo erectus.
(b) Neanderthals.
(c) Homo sapiens.
(d) Cro-Magnon man.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do various physical illnesses and social disease arise?

2. To qualify an object as art, the author suggests that it must fulfill how many qualities?

3. What other traits are highly connected to sexual attractiveness?

4. The art produced was determined by professional artists to be what?

5. What does evidence suggest about how long race has been a characteristic of modern humans?

(see the answer key)

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