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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Although it becomes clear that sex is necessary to avoid parasites, what question remains?
(a) Why people enjoy sex.
(b) How sex works.
(c) Whether or not sex is the best way to reproduce.
(d) Why sex works the way it does.

3. Homosexual men tend to be like __________ men and lesbians tend to be more like _______ women.
(a) Homosexual; heterosexual.
(b) Heterosexual; homosexual.
(c) Heterosexual; heterosexual.
(d) Homosexual; Homosexual.

4. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?
(a) How babies are made.
(b) Why babies are hard to keep alive.
(c) More ways that evolution can work against organisims.
(d) Why there are men and women.

5. In a landscape what will girls pick out as being important?
(a) Voices.
(b) Objects.
(c) People.
(d) Memories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the bdelloid rotifer?

2. To women, attractiveness in a male signifies _____________.

3. How do males fantasize?

4. What have mound building skills become?

5. Thinking that male and female brains are different is often thought to be_______.

(see the answer key)

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