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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, The Second Cloud.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is alarming about what the Europeans did?
(a) It was something no other Europeans had done.
(b) It was considered normal.
(c) It was looked upon as a successful process.
(d) It was looked upon as shocking.

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

3. What theory does Darwin offer to explain these traits?
(a) The theory of physical selection.
(b) The theory of natural selection.
(c) The theory of genetic selection.
(d) The theory of sexual selection.

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

5. To what did agriculture give rise?
(a) Organizations.
(b) Technology.
(c) Social settings.
(d) Class divisions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is the third art criterion uniquely human?

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

3. The human penis is largely used for what?

4. When was agriculture first being practiced?

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

(see the answer key)

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