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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Sexual Selection, and the Origin of Human Races.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is there a disparity regarding adulterous relationships?
(a) Between the guilt felt by men and women engaging in these types of relationships.
(b) Between the benefits for men and women engaging in these types of relationships.
(c) Between the religious consequences for men and women engaging in adulterous relationships.
(d) Between the legal consequences for men and women engaging in adulterous relationships.

2. Several scientifically rigorous genetic investigations of large populations conclusively demonstrate that roughly ______ percent of human children are not the genetic children of the male parent whom assumes genetic relatedness.
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.

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

4. What does the author once again consider regarding extra-marital sex?
(a) The different reasons for engaging in it and the putative rationale explaining why men, more than women, enjoy less discriminating extra-marital sexual encounters.
(b) The social stigmas attached to extra-marital sex.
(c) The positive results of this type of sex.
(d) The risks of engaging in this sort of activity.

5. How selective are humans across an array of traits?
(a) Highly.
(b) Minimally.
(c) Slightly.
(d) Not at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical traits tend to be significant for an individual's attraction to someone else?

2. What race was heavily built and physically powerful with a very large brain case?

3. Why is human sexuality an unusually developed trait for primates?

4. What traits are extremely highly important to sexual attractiveness?

5. What primates are monogamous and solitary?

(see the answer key)

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