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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. The human penis is largely used for what?
(a) Male-male display.
(b) A higher frequency of sexual activity.
(c) Male-female display.
(d) Attracting the female.

2. Why can men supposedly enjoy extra-marital sex with a minimum of consequences?
(a) Because society encourages them to have multiple partners.
(b) Because they have no risks of contracting diseases.
(c) Because an impregnated secondary sexual partner can simply be abandoned.
(d) Because they are more dominant.

3. What does the author once again consider regarding extra-marital sex?
(a) The risks of engaging in this sort of activity.
(b) The social stigmas attached to extra-marital sex.
(c) The positive results of this type of sex.
(d) The different reasons for engaging in it and the putative rationale explaining why men, more than women, enjoy less discriminating extra-marital sexual encounters.

4. Several scientifically rigorous genetic investigations of large populations conclusively demonstrate that roughly ______ percent of human children are not the genetic children of the male parent whom assumes genetic relatedness.
(a) 25.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

5. Where is there a disparity regarding adulterous relationships?
(a) Between the benefits for men and women engaging in these types of relationships.
(b) Between the religious consequences for men and women engaging in adulterous relationships.
(c) Between the legal consequences for men and women engaging in adulterous relationships.
(d) Between the guilt felt by men and women engaging in these types of relationships.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is human sexuality an unusually developed trait for primates?

2. What does this society not show?

3. What does Chapter 2 present?

4. There is a strong correlation between sexual size dimorphism and what?

5. What is the size ratio between a male and female in monogamous species?

(see the answer key)

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