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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. 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 legal consequences for men and women engaging in adulterous relationships.
(c) Between the guilt felt by men and women engaging in these types of relationships.
(d) Between the religious consequences for men and women engaging in adulterous relationships.

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

3. What happens to all animals?
(a) They mate.
(b) They age and eventually die.
(c) They survive.
(d) They care for one another.

4. How selective are humans across an array of traits?
(a) Highly.
(b) Minimally.
(c) Slightly.
(d) Not at all.

5. What does the author propose regarding race?
(a) It is a destructive mating preference.
(b) It is an insignificant mating preference.
(c) It is not a self-sustaining mating preference.
(d) It is a self-sustaining mating preference.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Do most racial traits appear to have any meaningful influence on environmental fitness?

3. About 200,000 years ago, H. sapiens appears to have diverged into two distinct lineages usually known as what?

4. When do chimps, humans, and gorillas break off from the remaining higher primates?

5. What final set of traits is clearly correlated to sexual attractiveness?

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