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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of success does evolution care about?
(a) Sexual rather than survival success.
(b) Biological evolution.
(c) Survival success.
(d) Natural selection.

3. High status individuals tend to have __________.
(a) Less babies.
(b) No babies.
(c) Female babies.
(d) Male babies.

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

5. Men and women behave and perform certain roles in every _______ and _____.
(a) Culture; country.
(b) Society; culture.
(c) Country; culture.
(d) Culture; society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most modern societies are _________.

2. Sexual reproduction is ___________ to keep the parasites and diseases off guard by creating new variations through each generation.

3. What have mound building skills become?

4. What is the "sexy-sons" theory?

5. What do the females of this same group prefer?

(see the answer key)

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