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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the author reason "like marries like?"
(a) Due to the media.
(b) Due to genetics.
(c) Due to childhood imprinting.
(d) Due to education.

2. What theory does Darwin offer to explain these traits?
(a) The theory of sexual selection.
(b) The theory of physical selection.
(c) The theory of natural selection.
(d) The theory of genetic selection.

3. Why does the author suggest this about an optimal organism?
(a) Humans are equally balanced to survive most incidences.
(b) Humans are likely to survive accidents so more energy should be put into child-rearing.
(c) Humans can survive without various body parts, so more energy can go into everyday living.
(d) Humans are simply not likely to experience survival after having a limb severed and thus the expense of maintaining limb-regeneration capability would rob energy and resources from other, more significant, capabilities that are more likely to be needed.

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

5. The artistic endeavors of what animals are presented and considered?
(a) Dogs and cats.
(b) Birds and a horse.
(c) Chimpanzees and an elephant.
(d) A lion and mice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is the first criterion uniquely human?

2. What have a few captive gorillas and chimpanzees been taught to do?

3. If a woman continued to deliver children as frequently as possible until death, what would happen to her?

4. How are humans unique regarding child rearing?

5. What does this society not show?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author say about death?

2. What evidence exists about people who are raised around members of a race different from their own genetic race?

3. How does Chapter 5 begin?

4. How is the first criterion not uniquely human?

5. How is the third criterion not uniquely human?

6. What is known about animal vocalizations?

7. What is an optimal organism?

8. What does the author suggest about humans and chimpanzees?

9. What traits are extremely highly correlated to sexual attractiveness?

10. What does the author think about humans and chimps and how they should be properly considered, regarding species and genus?

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