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

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

3. What does the author once again consider regarding extra-marital sex?
(a) The risks of engaging in this sort of activity.
(b) The social stigmas attached to extra-marital sex.
(c) The different reasons for engaging in it and the putative rationale explaining why men, more than women, enjoy less discriminating extra-marital sexual encounters.
(d) The positive results of this type of sex.

4. What race was heavily built and physically powerful with a very large brain case?
(a) Cro-Magnon man.
(b) Homo sapiens.
(c) Homo erectus.
(d) Neanderthal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About 200,000 years ago, H. sapiens appears to have diverged into two distinct lineages usually known as what?

2. When do chimps, humans, and gorillas break off from the remaining higher primates?

3. Why does the author suggest chimps be reclassified as Homo troglodytes and, presumably, Homo paniscus?

4. Why does the author largely reject this belief?

5. What does the author conclude about a species' long-term survival probability?

Short Essay Questions

1. With what does the author conclude?

2. Describe both Neanderthals.

3. What does the author suggest about humans and chimpanzees?

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

5. What are the risks of extra-marital affairs for men and women?

6. What do most scientists think about language? How does this author's view differ from other's views?

7. What is evident about the human race?

8. What does the author say about the first proto-human hominids?

9. How does Chapter 5 begin?

10. What does the author say qualifies as art?

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