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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Why Do We Grow Old and Die?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What final set of traits is clearly correlated to sexual attractiveness?
(a) Religion.
(b) Nearly all physical traits.
(c) Socioeconomic status.
(d) Personality.

2. What sexual strategy does the author say individual humans should adopt?
(a) One that is polygamous.
(b) One that is the safest.
(c) One that maximizes their individual reproductive success.
(d) One that is monogamous.

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

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

5. Both chimps and humans share what percent of their DNA in common with the gorilla species?
(a) 90.7.
(b) 97.7.
(c) 92.7.
(d) 87.7.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say about the numerous scientific approaches to aging that have been proposed and numerous theories that have been suggested?

2. Recently, molecular data obtained from DNA hybridization suggests what?

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

4. What does research show about those who are of one race and are raised by members of another race?

5. If a woman continued to deliver children as frequently as possible until death, what would happen to her?

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