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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the conventional wisdom suggest about pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer societies?
(a) They were unique according to location and climate.
(b) They were simple but filled with intelligence.
(c) They were crude organizations where individuals lived short, brutish, and violent lives.
(d) They were quite sophisticated with intelligent and powerful individuals.

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

4. What does this say about secretive extra-marital sexual unions?
(a) They are in fact very rare among couples who are polygamous.
(b) They are in fact exceptionally common among couples who are polygamous.
(c) They are in fact exceptionally common among couples who self-identify as exclusively monogamous.
(d) They are in fact very rare among couples who are monogamous.

5. How are humans unique among primates?
(a) They perform sexual acts frequently.
(b) The are isolated and monogamous.
(c) They are both social and polygamous.
(d) They are both social and monogamous.

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

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

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

9. What sexual strategy does the author say individual humans should adopt?
(a) One that maximizes their individual reproductive success.
(b) One that is monogamous.
(c) One that is the safest.
(d) One that is polygamous.

10. When do humans separate?
(a) C. 6 millions of years ago.
(b) C. 10 millions of years ago.
(c) C. 15 millions of years ago.
(d) C. 2 millions of years ago.

11. This view on sexual strategies is completely consistent with what?
(a) The standard accepted theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
(b) The standard accepted view of only a few cultures.
(c) The standard accepted theory of evolution by means of sexual selection.
(d) The standard view of most cultures.

12. Is the third art criterion uniquely human?
(a) No.
(b) In some cases.
(c) Yes.
(d) Maybe.

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

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

15. 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 attracted to the race in which they were raised.
(c) They are attracted to those of their own race.
(d) They are not attracted to anyone of either race.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do adolescent bower bird males learn construction methods and decorative processes?

2. To what did agriculture give rise?

3. Of what have several researchers focused on the vocalizations?

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

5. What is the purpose of the bowers?

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