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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. Why can men supposedly enjoy extra-marital sex with a minimum of consequences?
(a) Because society encourages them to have multiple partners.
(b) Because they are more dominant.
(c) Because they have no risks of contracting diseases.
(d) Because an impregnated secondary sexual partner can simply be abandoned.

2. What does the author say about primates with large testes?
(a) They mate frequently.
(b) They are more complaisant.
(c) They mate infrequently.
(d) They are more aggressive.

3. The author presents a greatly simplified view of the evolutionary process where numerous uncertain elements are noted but dismissed. For what does this allow?
(a) The author to convince the reader to trust his views.
(b) To make evolution seem simple and straightforward.
(c) A fairly straightforward presentation of human evolution in an intelligible and accessible format.
(d) Other scientists to dismiss this author's claims.

4. What did the Europeans do to these people?
(a) They encouraged them to take on European traditions and ideals in a matter of a few years.
(b) They eliminated them entirely over several years through a process called genocide.
(c) They assimilated with them over a period of several years.
(d) They eliminated them entirely over a period of a year through a process called genocide.

5. What did Charles Darwin realize about many organisms' traits?
(a) They sometimes have survival benefits.
(b) They do not appear to give any survival benefit, and some are adverse to survival.
(c) They often have survival benefits.
(d) They always have survival benefits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must women be highly selective in extra-marital sexual partners?

2. When do gorillas then separate?

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

4. Is agriculture the golden solution for human survival?

5. How has this root language been reconstructed by linguists?

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