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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does a parallel process not exist for men?
(a) Reproduction is a duty for men.
(b) Being able to constantly reproduce is important for males.
(c) Reproduction is not dangerous for men.
(d) Reproduction is not as important to men.

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

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

4. What primates are monogamous and solitary?
(a) Chimpanzees.
(b) Gorillas.
(c) Gibbons.
(d) Apes.

5. What physical traits tend to be significant for an individual's attraction to someone else?
(a) Traits that contrast with one's own.
(b) Traits that are not dominant in one's own.
(c) Traits that closely approximate their own.
(d) Traits that are different from one's own.

6. When do gorillas then separate?
(a) C. 15 millions of years ago.
(b) C. 5 millions of years ago.
(c) C. 10 millions of years ago.
(d) C. 20 millions of years ago.

7. To what did agriculture give rise?
(a) Class divisions.
(b) Social settings.
(c) Technology.
(d) Organizations.

8. When was agriculture first being practiced?
(a) 10,000 years ago.
(b) 100,000 years ago.
(c) 1,000,000 years ago.
(d) 1,000 years ago.

9. Why does the author suggest chimps be reclassified as Homo troglodytes and, presumably, Homo paniscus?
(a) Homo precedes Pan in the nomenclature.
(b) Chimps are no longer Pan.
(c) Pan precedes Homo in the nomenclature.
(d) Homo and Pan are the same nomenclature.

10. Who are the chimps' closest living relatives?
(a) Apes.
(b) Gorillas.
(c) Baboons.
(d) Humans.

11. Do non-human primates demonstrate any predilection to agricultural practices?
(a) Yes.
(b) Only chimpanzees.
(c) No.
(d) Some.

12. What does the author think of the second criterion?
(a) It has nothing to do with humans making art.
(b) It is uniquely human.
(c) It is unanswerable and therefore not applicable to the debate.
(d) It is the most significant of the criteria.

13. When do various physical illnesses and social disease arise?
(a) With the advent of agriculture and rising population densities.
(b) When food is scarce.
(c) With the hunting to extinction of large species by the hunter-gatherer societies.
(d) When various groups converge.

14. The author then considers the nearly uniquely human feature of female estrus?
(a) It is useless.
(b) It is very visible.
(c) It is hidden.
(d) It is non-existent.

15. If a woman continued to deliver children as frequently as possible until death, what would happen to her?
(a) She would be pregnant almost constantly for many decades.
(b) Her death would nearly positively result from childbirth.
(c) She would have a difficult time raising her children.
(d) She would do nothing but reproduce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author conclude about a species' long-term survival probability?

2. What does one of the most instructive avenues of investigation in human sexual attraction involve?

3. In most primates, sexually receptive females exhibit what?

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

5. What does evidence suggest about how long race has been a characteristic of modern humans?

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