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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Animal Origins of Art.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author once again consider regarding extra-marital sex?
(a) The risks of engaging in this sort of activity.
(b) The different reasons for engaging in it and the putative rationale explaining why men, more than women, enjoy less discriminating extra-marital sexual encounters.
(c) The positive results of this type of sex.
(d) The social stigmas attached to extra-marital sex.

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

4. When did a great division in the human lineage occur?
(a) About thirteen millions of years ago.
(b) About thirty millions of years ago.
(c) About three billions of years ago.
(d) About three millions of years ago.

5. What is an optimal organism?
(a) One that has a few maximized parts rather than one that is equally balanced.
(b) One that is balanced and has a few maximized parts.
(c) One that has a few maximized parts.
(d) One that is balanced because a few maximized parts do not create an optimal organism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say about primates with large testes?

2. What is considered by most scientists to be uniquely human?

3. Ideals of beauty vary ___________________ from culture to culture.

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

5. There is a strong correlation between sexual size dimorphism and what?

(see the answer key)

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