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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. By what do many suggest that today's societal ills could be eliminated?
(a) Look to the past as a way to learn from previous mistakes.
(b) Enjoy the present, since there is not much hope in the future.
(c) A return to a fondly remembered era of peace and environmental purity.
(d) Working toward a better future and an era of peace and environmental purity.

2. What is the Green Bank formula?
(a) A mathematical process that putatively determines the number of intelligent species in the universe.
(b) A political organization.
(c) A bank that is beneficial for the environment.
(d) An organic blood bank.

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

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

5. What does this say about secretive extra-marital sexual unions?
(a) They are in fact exceptionally common among couples who self-identify as exclusively monogamous.
(b) They are in fact very rare among couples who are polygamous.
(c) They are in fact very rare among couples who are monogamous.
(d) They are in fact exceptionally common among couples who are polygamous.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the conclusion based on the art criteria?

3. What does this society not show?

4. What sexual strategy does the author say individual humans should adopt?

5. What does one of the most instructive avenues of investigation in human sexual attraction involve?

(see the answer key)

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