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

2. 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 incomplete.
(c) Because they were inconclusive.
(d) Because they were incorrect.

3. Eventually A. robustus became extinct and A. africanus gave rise to who?
(a) Homo habilis.
(b) Homo erectus.
(c) Homo ergaster.
(d) Homo sapiens.

4. With what does the chapter conclude?
(a) An ethical discussion about the implications of classifying chimps as Homo.
(b) Why chimps should not be classified as Homo.
(c) A discussion about the similarities between humans and chimps.
(d) The differences between humans and chimps.

5. Why does the author suggest chimps be reclassified as Homo troglodytes and, presumably, Homo paniscus?
(a) Homo and Pan are the same nomenclature.
(b) Pan precedes Homo in the nomenclature.
(c) Homo precedes Pan in the nomenclature.
(d) Chimps are no longer Pan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author once again consider regarding extra-marital sex?

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

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

4. How selective are humans across an array of traits?

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

(see the answer key)

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