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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 does the author think of the second criterion?
(a) It is uniquely human.
(b) It is the most significant of the criteria.
(c) It has nothing to do with humans making art.
(d) It is unanswerable and therefore not applicable to the debate.

2. The disparate goals in sexuality between sexes have been extensively investigated where?
(a) In gorillas.
(b) In animal species.
(c) In humans.
(d) In chimpanzees.

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

4. Why do many scientists believe human infants learn language?
(a) Because they speak their own language as infants and toddlers.
(b) Because they, like all creatures, have the capacity to understand some vocalizations.
(c) Because they possess biological linguistic adaptations.
(d) Because they must survive through that language.

5. 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) Two species in two genera.
(d) One species in two genera.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ideals of beauty vary ___________________ from culture to culture.

2. When did a great division in the human lineage occur?

3. Is the third art criterion uniquely human?

4. With what does the chapter conclude?

5. Is the first criterion uniquely human?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chapter 5 begin?

2. What does the author conclude about human sexual strategies?

3. What is the purpose of this chapter?

4. What are pidgins or creoles?

5. What does the author say about death?

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

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

8. What is unusual about human sexuality?

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

10. With what does the author conclude?

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