View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does the author argue about the life span of humans?
(a) It is too short.
(b) It is longer than most species on Earth.
(c) It should be viewed as the result of a series of trade-offs whereby an optimal organism is designed given many constraints.
(d) It should be viewed as a privilege.

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

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

5. From what does the author derive clues regarding a species' long-term survival probability?
(a) How able it is to repair itself.
(b) How long it takes to develop prior to birth.
(c) How fast and strong it is.
(d) How much energy several species invest in self-repair.

6. What does Chapter 5 begin by examining?
(a) Some primate methods of mate selection.
(b) Monogamous relationships.
(c) Some animal methods of mate selection.
(d) Some human methods of mate selection.

7. Ideals of beauty vary ___________________ from culture to culture.
(a) Somewhat.
(b) Not at all.
(c) Slightly.
(d) Enormously.

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

9. The art produced was determined by professional artists to be what?
(a) Of high artistic value.
(b) Nonsense.
(c) Low art.
(d) Useless.

10. One of the most intriguing results of this analysis is the observation of ___________________________.
(a) Correlation coefficients.
(b) Correlation components.
(c) Coronation components.
(d) Coronation coefficients.

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

12. What example does Darwin give to support his theory?
(a) The tail of the male peacock.
(b) The fur on a horse.
(c) The eyes of a cat.
(d) The taile on a donkey.

13. What is generally considered uniquely human?
(a) Dance.
(b) Language.
(c) Music.
(d) Art.

14. What does one of the most instructive avenues of investigation in human sexual attraction involve?
(a) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from large groups of non-mated humans.
(b) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from small groups of mated humans.
(c) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from small groups of non-mated humans.
(d) Performing statistical analysis on observable measurements taken from large groups of mated humans.

15. What race was heavily built and physically powerful with a very large brain case?
(a) Cro-Magnon man.
(b) Homo erectus.
(c) Neanderthal.
(d) Homo sapiens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do paleopathology investigations demonstrate conclusively?

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

3. Do non-human primates demonstrate any predilection to agricultural practices?

4. What theory does Darwin offer to explain these traits?

5. Somewhat less than 100,000 years ago, who replaced the Neanderthals?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 653 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample