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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 are the most rudimentary human languages termed?
(a) As pigeons and croles.
(b) As pidgins or creoles.
(c) As piggins and creeles.
(d) As podgkins and crocoles.

2. What final set of traits is clearly correlated to sexual attractiveness?
(a) Socioeconomic status.
(b) Nearly all physical traits.
(c) Religion.
(d) Personality.

3. What is the correlation for same-race mating?
(a) +0.3.
(b) +0.9.
(c) +0.2.
(d) +0.5.

4. What is alarming about what the Europeans did?
(a) It was considered normal.
(b) It was looked upon as a successful process.
(c) It was looked upon as shocking.
(d) It was something no other Europeans had done.

5. What did European animals include?
(a) Numerous species of large-bodied herding animals, which were domesticated.
(b) Numerous species of small-bodied carnivorous, wild animals.
(c) Numerous species of small-bodied domesticated animals.
(d) Numerous species of large-bodied carnivorous, wild animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do many scientists believe human infants learn language?

2. Why were many of these scientific studies about extra-marital sexual unions never published?

3. What is the purpose of the bowers?

4. What does the author say about primates with large testes?

5. What does Chapter 5 begin by examining?

(see the answer key)

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