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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have anthropologists found to be a universal characteristic of humans across different cultures?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Hate.
(c) Desire.
(d) Depression.

2. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?
(a) Sexual reproduction should not exist.
(b) Sexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
(c) Same-sex reproduction must be understood to understand sexual reproduction.
(d) Asexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.

3. What was a natural human situation in many early societies?
(a) Polygamy.
(b) Monogamy.
(c) Biological selection.
(d) Natural selection.

4. Are sexually reproducing organisms able to compete with asexually reproducing organisms?
(a) Occasionally.
(b) Yes, always.
(c) No, never.
(d) Only when they are genetically engineered.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do males want in sexual partners?

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

3. From this, what seems clear?

4. In a landscape what will girls pick out as being important?

5. In many tribes, __________ of the population have lost family members to murder.

(see the answer key)

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