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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, Horses, Hittites, and History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ideals of beauty vary ___________________ from culture to culture.
(a) Not at all.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) Slightly.
(d) Enormously.

2. What other traits are highly connected to sexual attractiveness?
(a) Measures of personality and measures of physical attractiveness.
(b) Measures of personality and measures of intelligence.
(c) Measures of physical attractiveness.
(d) Measures of socioeconomic status and measures of intelligence.

3. What traits are extremely highly important to sexual attractiveness?
(a) Religion, ethnic background, race, socioeconomic status, age, and political views.
(b) Religion, intelligence, and socioeconomic status.
(c) Physical attractiveness and intelligence.
(d) Socioeconomic status, ethnic background, and appearance.

4. What does one of the most instructive avenues of investigation in human sexual attraction involve?
(a) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from large groups of mated humans.
(b) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from small groups of non-mated humans.
(c) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from large groups of non-mated humans.
(d) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from small groups of mated humans.

5. What primates are monogamous and solitary?
(a) Apes.
(b) Gibbons.
(c) Gorillas.
(d) Chimpanzees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author conclude about agriculture?

2. How has this root language been reconstructed by linguists?

3. What do paleopathology investigations demonstrate conclusively?

4. What other creatures practice a form of agriculture?

5. What final set of traits is clearly correlated to sexual attractiveness?

(see the answer key)

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