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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 do adolescent bower bird males learn construction methods and decorative processes?
(a) They watch older males.
(b) They watch each other.
(c) They teach themselves.
(d) They create their own unique bowers.
2. 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) The skeletons of chimpanzees have been found from the same time period.
(c) Footprints have been left by these proto-human hominids.
(d) From analyzing skeletal limb changes discovered in the fossil record.
3. What theory does Darwin offer to explain these traits?
(a) The theory of natural selection.
(b) The theory of genetic selection.
(c) The theory of sexual selection.
(d) The theory of physical selection.
4. From what does the author derive clues regarding a species' long-term survival probability?
(a) How much energy several species invest in self-repair.
(b) How able it is to repair itself.
(c) How fast and strong it is.
(d) How long it takes to develop prior to birth.
5. What does this society not show?
(a) Innovation or variability over vast geological areas and enormous time spans.
(b) An interest in hunting and gathering.
(c) The lack of innovation once thought.
(d) The inability to think critically.
Short Answer Questions
1. Do all animals that show artistic tendencies satisfy each criterion?
2. What does the author conclude about agriculture?
3. What race was heavily built and physically powerful with a very large brain case?
4. What is the purpose of the bowers?
5. Why does the author suggest this about an optimal organism?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the conventional wisdom regarding pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies? Is this correct?
2. What takes place about 200,000 years ago?
3. What is one of the most instructive avenues of investigation on human sexual attraction?
4. What other creatures also practice agriculture, besides humans?
5. With what does the author conclude?
6. What is unusual about human sexuality?
7. What do most scientists think about language? How does this author's view differ from other's views?
8. What is the author's conclusion about art?
9. What does the author say qualifies as art?
10. Describe both Neanderthals.
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