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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. Who are the chimps' closest living relatives?
(a) Apes.
(b) Gorillas.
(c) Baboons.
(d) Humans.

2. What enabled Europeans to pursue their conquests?
(a) They had more people than the native people.
(b) They had a better understanding about the natural world around them.
(c) They carried social diseases, had better technology, used advanced writing, and featured large-scale political organizations.
(d) They were more powerful and more intelligent.

3. There is a strong correlation between sexual size dimorphism and what?
(a) Polygamy.
(b) Monogamy.
(c) Homosexuality.
(d) Heterosexuality.

4. Do the archaeological and historic records suggest that these views are correct?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Slightly.
(c) Not entirely.
(d) Entirely.

5. What is the conclusion of the woodpecker research?
(a) All woodpeckers are descended from two ancestral species.
(b) All woodpeckers are descended from a common ancestral species.
(c) All woodpeckers are descended from several ancestral species.
(d) Some woodpeckers are descended from a common ancestral species.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of behaviors do many animals exhibit?

2. What does this society not show?

3. To what did agriculture give rise?

4. What percentage of extinctions does archaeological evidence suggest is the responsibility of pre-historic humans?

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

(see the answer key)

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