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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was agriculture first being practiced?
(a) 100,000 years ago.
(b) 1,000 years ago.
(c) 1,000,000 years ago.
(d) 10,000 years ago.

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

3. From what does the author derive clues regarding a species' long-term survival probability?
(a) How fast and strong it is.
(b) How much energy several species invest in self-repair.
(c) How long it takes to develop prior to birth.
(d) How able it is to repair itself.

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

5. The artistic endeavors of what animals are presented and considered?
(a) Dogs and cats.
(b) Birds and a horse.
(c) A lion and mice.
(d) Chimpanzees and an elephant.

6. The art produced was determined by professional artists to be what?
(a) Of high artistic value.
(b) Low art.
(c) Useless.
(d) Nonsense.

7. Why does the author reason "like marries like?"
(a) Due to the media.
(b) Due to genetics.
(c) Due to childhood imprinting.
(d) Due to education.

8. Does an analysis of today's few remaining hunter-gatherer societies suggest that the conventional wisdom is correct?
(a) In some cultures.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Only in certain climates in the world.

9. In Chapter 1, to what is the species Homo sapiens compared and contrasted?
(a) Tan propyldytes.
(b) Pan troglodytes.
(c) Pan tropyldytes
(d) Tan proglodytes.

10. How do scientists know that about four millions of years ago the first proto-human hominids began to walk upright?
(a) The food eaten by the proto-human hominids is different than previous species.
(b) Footprints have been left by these proto-human hominids.
(c) The skeletons of chimpanzees have been found from the same time period.
(d) From analyzing skeletal limb changes discovered in the fossil record.

11. What does this society not show?
(a) An interest in hunting and gathering.
(b) Innovation or variability over vast geological areas and enormous time spans.
(c) The inability to think critically.
(d) The lack of innovation once thought.

12. Ideals of beauty vary ___________________ from culture to culture.
(a) Enormously.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) Not at all.
(d) Slightly.

13. One of the most intriguing results of this analysis is the observation of ___________________________.
(a) Correlation components.
(b) Correlation coefficients.
(c) Coronation coefficients.
(d) Coronation components.

14. What is an optimal organism?
(a) One that has a few maximized parts.
(b) One that is balanced because a few maximized parts do not create an optimal organism.
(c) One that has a few maximized parts rather than one that is equally balanced.
(d) One that is balanced and has a few maximized parts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is human sexuality an unusually developed trait for primates?

2. What is the purpose of the bowers?

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

4. Around 500,000 years ago, H. erectus appears to have given rise to who?

5. How are human females nearly unique among animals?

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