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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 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 positive results of this type of sex.
(c) The social stigmas attached to extra-marital sex.
(d) The risks of engaging in this sort of activity.

2. What is a prevalent habit among modern peoples of all time?
(a) Look to the past and imagine it as a horrible time of misunderstanding and ignorance.
(b) Look to toward the future and imagine the turmoil that will be taking place.
(c) To look toward the distant past and imagine it as a sort of golden age where contemporaneous problems did not exist.
(d) To look toward the future and imagine it as a sort of golden age.

3. Is extra-marital sex approached differently by men than by women?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Yes.
(c) Rarely.
(d) No.

4. What happens to all animals?
(a) They survive.
(b) They age and eventually die.
(c) They mate.
(d) They care for one another.

5. How could one describe the factors involved in the formula?
(a) Estimated.
(b) Incorrect.
(c) Objective.
(d) Exact.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author propose regarding race?

2. What does evidence suggest about how long race has been a characteristic of modern humans?

3. Do non-human primates demonstrate any predilection to agricultural practices?

4. Do the archaeological and historic records suggest that these views are correct?

5. What does the author say about primates with small testes?

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