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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the human female's interest concerning reproduction and mating?
(a) Females do not want to have babies.
(b) Ideal husband for reproduction and reproductive partners on the sly.
(c) Women only want many partners to make the best babies.
(d) They want an ideal husband.

2. What have mound building skills become?
(a) Unimportant.
(b) A coveted skill.
(c) A reproductive skill.
(d) A survival technique.

3. What will happen to create more female babies in Chinese and Indian societies?
(a) Virgin births will happen to adjust and make more female babies.
(b) There will be more births overall.
(c) There will be less births overall.
(d) More boys will be born, because it is what people want.

4. In 1970, __________ argued that the individual is merely a container for genes.
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Russel Wallace.
(c) Richard Dawkins.
(d) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

5. Is attractiveness always the only criteria for mate selection?
(a) Yes, females are shallow.
(b) No, only when selection is plentiful.
(c) Yes, females don't like ugly people.
(d) No, females like important mates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.

2. In which cultures are male babies especially prized?

3. How does the Red Queen begin?

4. Who has solutions concerning genetics?

5. Men excrete far more sperm when they ________________.

(see the answer key)

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