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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, How We Pick Our Mates and Sex Partners.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Neanderthals apparently master?
(a) Language.
(b) Creating the wheel.
(c) Fire.
(d) Painting.

2. When do chimpanzees diverge from pygmy chimpanzees?
(a) C. 6 millions of years ago.
(b) C. 5 millions of years ago.
(c) C. 2 millions of years ago.
(d) C. 10 millions of years ago.

3. When did a great division in the human lineage occur?
(a) About three millions of years ago.
(b) About three billions of years ago.
(c) About thirty millions of years ago.
(d) About thirteen millions of years ago.

4. What is the size ratio between a male and female in monogamous species?
(a) The male is usually larger than the female.
(b) The size is not of importance.
(c) The female is usually larger than the male.
(d) They are usually the same size.

5. Why were many of these scientific studies about extra-marital sexual unions never published?
(a) Because their conclusions were deemed too inflammatory.
(b) Because they were inconclusive.
(c) Because they were incorrect.
(d) Because they were incomplete.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do scientists know that about four millions of years ago the first proto-human hominids began to walk upright?

2. What does Chapter 5 begin by examining?

3. The author then considers the nearly uniquely human feature of female estrus?

4. What final set of traits is clearly correlated to sexual attractiveness?

5. The disparate goals in sexuality between sexes have been extensively investigated where?

(see the answer key)

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