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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 does this society not show?
(a) The lack of innovation once thought.
(b) The inability to think critically.
(c) An interest in hunting and gathering.
(d) Innovation or variability over vast geological areas and enormous time spans.

2. In Chapter 1, to what is the species Homo sapiens compared and contrasted?
(a) Pan troglodytes.
(b) Tan proglodytes.
(c) Tan propyldytes.
(d) Pan tropyldytes

3. Why are studies of sexual attractiveness in humans difficult to do?
(a) Humans are difficult to trust.
(b) Humans often lie.
(c) Human studies must rely on subjective interviews or careful examination of secondary effects.
(d) Humans do not want to take place in studies.

4. What does research show about those who are of one race and are raised by members of another race?
(a) They are attracted to those of either race.
(b) They are not attracted to anyone of either race.
(c) They are attracted to those of their own race.
(d) They are attracted to the race in which they were raised.

5. What does the author say about primates with large testes?
(a) They mate infrequently.
(b) They are more aggressive.
(c) They are more complaisant.
(d) They mate frequently.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical traits tend to be significant for an individual's attraction to someone else?

2. What does Chapter 2 present?

3. H. erectus was not the first upright hominid but bears the appellation. Why?

4. What does the author propose regarding race?

5. Why can men supposedly enjoy extra-marital sex with a minimum of consequences?

(see the answer key)

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