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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the development of language?
(a) A basic need for courtship.
(b) A need for humans to spread gossip about sexual partners.
(c) A basic need for human evolution.
(d) A basic need for survival of the species.

2. Specifically, what did these rules mandate?
(a) Prevent sex and divorce among the upper class.
(b) To make having multiple wives legal.
(c) The people must live with their many wives and support them.
(d) People were given divorces if they were unhappy.

3. Male human beings expect to have their _______ compete with the ________ of other males.
(a) Wealth.
(b) Attractiveness.
(c) Love.
(d) Sperm.

4. How does Chapter 2 begin?
(a) With diagrams.
(b) An explanation of sexual reproduction.
(c) Information about the author.
(d) With a fictional account of a Martian visitor.

5. What type of historical incident may have been a more frequent phenomenon than is commonly thought?
(a) Illegitimate sons and daughters.
(b) The conflict between Henry the VIII and the church over divorce.
(c) Divorces throughout history.
(d) Polygamy in the Catholic Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.

2. What happens if a virus attacks a population of clones?

3. What are the human female's interest concerning reproduction and mating?

4. Men excrete far more sperm when they ________________.

5. Natural selection is a prerequisite of __________.

(see the answer key)

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