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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, How We Pick Our Mates and Sex Partners.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are studies of sexual attractiveness in humans difficult to do?
(a) Humans are difficult to trust.
(b) Humans do not want to take place in studies.
(c) Human studies must rely on subjective interviews or careful examination of secondary effects.
(d) Humans often lie.

2. Recently, molecular data obtained from DNA hybridization suggests what?
(a) Humans are not closely related to chimpanzees and gorillas.
(b) Humans and chimpanzees are very closely genetically related.
(c) Humans are not closely related to gorillas.
(d) Humans, chimpanzees, and gorilla are all very closely genetically related.

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

4. What other traits are highly connected to sexual attractiveness?
(a) Measures of socioeconomic status and measures of intelligence.
(b) Measures of personality and measures of physical attractiveness.
(c) Measures of physical attractiveness.
(d) Measures of personality and measures of intelligence.

5. To what is the pair bonding found among humans probably due?
(a) The need for having many children.
(b) The need for a permanent mate.
(c) The difficulty of surviving on one's own.
(d) The inordinately high burden of childcare found within human societies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author once again consider regarding extra-marital sex?

2. What sexual strategy does the author say individual humans should adopt?

3. What primates are monogamous and solitary?

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

5. In Chapter 1, to what is the species Homo sapiens compared and contrasted?

(see the answer key)

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