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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Evolution of Human Sexuality.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say about any human trait?
(a) Only a few other animals have similar traits to humans.
(b) It is uniquely human.
(c) It can be found among other animals but not to the degree exhibited by humans.
(d) It is very rarely found among other primates.

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

3. The author presents a greatly simplified view of the evolutionary process where numerous uncertain elements are noted but dismissed. For what does this allow?
(a) The author to convince the reader to trust his views.
(b) To make evolution seem simple and straightforward.
(c) A fairly straightforward presentation of human evolution in an intelligible and accessible format.
(d) Other scientists to dismiss this author's claims.

4. What race was heavily built and physically powerful with a very large brain case?
(a) Homo sapiens.
(b) Neanderthal.
(c) Homo erectus.
(d) Cro-Magnon man.

5. Recently, molecular data obtained from DNA hybridization suggests what?
(a) Humans are not closely related to chimpanzees and gorillas.
(b) Humans and chimpanzees are very closely genetically related.
(c) Humans are not closely related to gorillas.
(d) Humans, chimpanzees, and gorilla are all very closely genetically related.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say about primates with large testes?

2. When do chimps, humans, and gorillas break off from the remaining higher primates?

3. In most primates, sexually receptive females exhibit what?

4. The human penis is largely used for what?

5. In Chapter 1, to what is the species Homo sapiens compared and contrasted?

(see the answer key)

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