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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Why Do We Grow Old and Die?.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the author propose regarding race?
(a) It is a destructive mating preference.
(b) It is an insignificant mating preference.
(c) It is a self-sustaining mating preference.
(d) It is not a self-sustaining mating preference.
2. Why do races tend to remain established and distinct?
(a) Sexual selection.
(b) Genetic selection.
(c) Physical selection.
(d) Natural selection.
3. Why can men supposedly enjoy extra-marital sex with a minimum of consequences?
(a) Because they have no risks of contracting diseases.
(b) Because they are more dominant.
(c) Because an impregnated secondary sexual partner can simply be abandoned.
(d) Because society encourages them to have multiple partners.
4. Why does the author suggest chimps be reclassified as Homo troglodytes and, presumably, Homo paniscus?
(a) Chimps are no longer Pan.
(b) Pan precedes Homo in the nomenclature.
(c) Homo and Pan are the same nomenclature.
(d) Homo precedes Pan in the nomenclature.
5. If a woman continued to deliver children as frequently as possible until death, what would happen to her?
(a) She would have a difficult time raising her children.
(b) She would be pregnant almost constantly for many decades.
(c) She would do nothing but reproduce.
(d) Her death would nearly positively result from childbirth.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does the author reason "like marries like?"
2. Why are studies of sexual attractiveness in humans difficult to do?
3. The disparate goals in sexuality between sexes have been extensively investigated where?
4. When do gorillas then separate?
5. How are human females nearly unique among animals?
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