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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who directly advocated for polygamy in early societies?
(a) Religious groups.
(b) Kings and queens.
(c) Government groups.
(d) Pagan groups.

2. How do males harm themselves?
(a) Status games.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Uneasy violence.
(d) Uneasy violence and status games.

3. The gender ratio is ___________ as an evolutionary pressure in humans.
(a) Strong.
(b) Weak.
(c) Harmful.
(d) Undeniable.

4. What did Zahavi, a scientist, theorize about reproduction mating?
(a) Female attractiveness signals the male's ability to survive.
(b) Male attractiveness hurts a male's ability to survive.
(c) Female attractiveness hurts a male's ability to survive.
(d) Male attractiveness signals the male's ability to survive.

5. Who cannot compete with males?
(a) Other males.
(b) Masculine females.
(c) Females.
(d) Hermaphrodites.

Short Answer Questions

1. High status individuals tend to have __________.

2. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?

3. What type of historical incident may have been a more frequent phenomenon than is commonly thought?

4. What gender contains all cytoplasmic genes?

5. What is the "good genes" theory?

(see the answer key)

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