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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of civilization do the New Guinea tribes have?
(a) Hunters.
(b) Democratic governments.
(c) Hunter gatherers.
(d) Scavengers.

2. What can a psychiatrist expect to find in all people?
(a) Similar emotions and behaviors.
(b) Extreme emotions and rational behaviors.
(c) No similarities in emotions.
(d) Psychopathic behavior.

3. Sexual reproduction benefits _____________.
(a) No one.
(b) One member of the same organism versus another member of that same organisim.
(c) Only humans, not other organisms.
(d) Everyone.

4. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.
(a) Why humans are the way they are.
(b) Where humans live.
(c) A way to study humans without them knowing.
(d) How they got to be the way they are.

5. What is the primary part in sexual reproduction?
(a) Combining all genes.
(b) Killing genes that are not yours.
(c) Combining and outcrossing genes.
(d) Outcrossing genes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Vicar of Bray theory flawed?

2. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?

3. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.

4. What do scientists want to discover about genetic mixing?

5. What kind of study does evolution become?

(see the answer key)

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