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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. How is this purely biological viewpoint on sexual encounters enormously complicated?
(a) By the evolution of a polygamous desire to one that is monogamous.
(b) By contrasting research results.
(c) By numerous asymmetrical social constructions.
(d) By the changes in human desires throughout the centuries.

2. Why must women be highly selective in extra-marital sexual partners?
(a) They are supported by society.
(b) They risk contracting diseases.
(c) To avoid compromise or disclosure.
(d) To avoid becoming emotionally attached.

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

4. When do chimps, humans, and gorillas break off from the remaining higher primates?
(a) C. 5 millions of years ago.
(b) C. 20 millions of years ago.
(c) C. 10 millions of years ago.
(d) C. 15 millions of years ago.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author presents a greatly simplified view of the evolutionary process where numerous uncertain elements are noted but dismissed. For what does this allow?

3. This view on sexual strategies is completely consistent with what?

4. What does this society not show?

5. 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.

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