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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 are humans unique among primates?
(a) The are isolated and monogamous.
(b) They are both social and polygamous.
(c) They perform sexual acts frequently.
(d) They are both social and monogamous.

2. Why were many of these scientific studies about extra-marital sexual unions never published?
(a) Because they were inconclusive.
(b) Because they were incomplete.
(c) Because they were incorrect.
(d) Because their conclusions were deemed too inflammatory.

3. Do non-human primates demonstrate any predilection to agricultural practices?
(a) Only chimpanzees.
(b) Some.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

4. The chimp species (Pan troglodytes) shares what percent of its DNA in common with the pygmy chimp species (Pan paniscus)?
(a) 90.3.
(b) 99.3.
(c) 89.3.
(d) 95.3.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author believe that humans and chimps should properly be considered to be?

2. What is considered by most scientists to be uniquely human?

3. What is a fundamental aspect of humanity and in general is easy to determine even by non-experts?

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

5. What does Chapter 2 present?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the first criterion not uniquely human?

2. What other creatures also practice agriculture, besides humans?

3. What does the author say about chimps and humans, regarding their DNA?

4. When do various primates break off from the remaining higher primates?

5. How does Chapter 5 begin?

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

7. What is one of the most instructive avenues of investigation on human sexual attraction?

8. What is the significance of human language?

9. What does Charles Darwin realize about some traits possessed by many organisms?

10. By what is the author's biological viewpoint complicated?

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