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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, The Golden Age That Never Was.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 small 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 large groups of non-mated humans.

2. What is the purpose of the bowers?
(a) To show off for other males.
(b) To raise their young.
(c) To protect them from the elements.
(d) To attract females for mating.

3. Whenever two groups with disparate developed languages come into occasional contact that, for social reasons, precludes the use of one or the other languages, what arises?
(a) A new rudimentary communication system.
(b) War.
(c) Hatred and misunderstanding.
(d) The use of the dominant language.

4. What physical traits tend to be significant for an individual's attraction to someone else?
(a) Traits that closely approximate their own.
(b) Traits that are not dominant in one's own.
(c) Traits that contrast with one's own.
(d) Traits that are different from one's own.

5. The first human settlers of New Zealand hunted local large fauna to extinction within how many years?
(a) A few dozen.
(b) One hundred.
(c) One.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are studies of sexual attractiveness in humans difficult to do?

3. Why does the author suggest this about an optimal organism?

4. What does this say about secretive extra-marital sexual unions?

5. What is generally considered uniquely human?

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