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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 large groups of mated humans.
(c) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from large groups of non-mated humans.
(d) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from small groups of non-mated humans.

2. What is alarming about what the Europeans did?
(a) It was looked upon as a successful process.
(b) It was considered normal.
(c) It was looked upon as shocking.
(d) It was something no other Europeans had done.

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

4. What is the correlation for same-race mating?
(a) +0.5.
(b) +0.9.
(c) +0.3.
(d) +0.2.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Around 500,000 years ago, H. erectus appears to have given rise to who?

2. What does the conventional wisdom suggest about pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies?

3. How do many imagine that humans lived during certain periods of time?

4. What did European settlers find when they first arrived in Tasmania?

5. What does the author say about any human trait?

(see the answer key)

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