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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. The disparate goals in sexuality between sexes have been extensively investigated where?
(a) In animal species.
(b) In humans.
(c) In chimpanzees.
(d) In gorillas.

2. How are humans unique among primates?
(a) They are both social and monogamous.
(b) They perform sexual acts frequently.
(c) The are isolated and monogamous.
(d) They are both social and polygamous.

3. What did Charles Darwin realize about many organisms' traits?
(a) They always have survival benefits.
(b) They do not appear to give any survival benefit, and some are adverse to survival.
(c) They often have survival benefits.
(d) They sometimes have survival benefits.

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

5. Why is human sexuality an unusually developed trait for primates?
(a) It is largely divorced from reproduction.
(b) It is very connected to reproduction.
(c) Humans are monogamous.
(d) Most primates rarely engage in sexual acts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is extra-marital sex approached differently by men than by women?

2. There is a strong correlation between sexual size dimorphism and what?

3. What does Chapter 5 begin by examining?

4. The author then considers the nearly uniquely human feature of female estrus?

5. What example does Darwin give to support his theory?

(see the answer key)

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