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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whenever two groups with disparate developed languages come into occasional contact that, for social reasons, precludes the use of one or the other languages, what arises?
(a) War.
(b) The use of the dominant language.
(c) A new rudimentary communication system.
(d) Hatred and misunderstanding.

3. What have a few captive gorillas and chimpanzees been taught to do?
(a) Speak a human language.
(b) Sing.
(c) Read.
(d) Use various non-vocal systems to communicate with sign or symbol languages.

4. Why does the author suggest chimps be reclassified as Homo troglodytes and, presumably, Homo paniscus?
(a) Chimps are no longer Pan.
(b) Pan precedes Homo in the nomenclature.
(c) Homo precedes Pan in the nomenclature.
(d) Homo and Pan are the same nomenclature.

5. The human penis is largely used for what?
(a) A higher frequency of sexual activity.
(b) Attracting the female.
(c) Male-female display.
(d) Male-male display.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what have several researchers focused on the vocalizations?

2. What does the conventional wisdom suggest about pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies?

3. What does the author conclude about agriculture?

4. The author then considers the nearly uniquely human feature of female estrus?

5. How are human females nearly unique among animals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of human language?

2. What is the correlation between the sizes of the male and females of species?

3. What evidence exists about people who are raised around members of a race different from their own genetic race?

4. What has research discovered about the percentage of children who are not raised by their biological fathers?

5. What is evident about the human race?

6. What takes place about 200,000 years ago?

7. How does Chapter 5 begin?

8. How is the study of testis and penis size among primates useful?

9. What is the conventional wisdom regarding pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies? Is this correct?

10. What does the author say about death?

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