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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. What seems to be partially the result of genetics?
(a) The ability to see whole objects distinctly.
(b) The ability to see certain objects as whole.
(c) The ability to distinguish easily between objects and to see certain objects as whole.
(d) The ability to distinguish easily between objects.

2. What causes a man's brain to change in the womb?
(a) Endocrine.
(b) A dose of testosterone.
(c) Estrogen.
(d) A dose of progesterone.

3. What tends to stay private between humans?
(a) Sex.
(b) Money.
(c) Gossip.
(d) Child-bearing.

4. What do male primates do to their female's children who are not also their children?
(a) Ignore the children who are not their own.
(b) Kill the children that are not their own.
(c) Kill the female for having children from another mate.
(d) Take care of all the children.

5. New evidence suggests that much of human learning is developed through __________.
(a) Natural ability.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) Experiences.
(d) Instincts.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did males evolve?

2. In a landscape, what will boys pick out as being important?

3. How do males fantasize?

4. Humans tend to be natural _________ who are able to predict and read the intentions of other people fairly easily.

5. Young boys show a propensity for __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author think that humans developed intelligence?

2. Why are societies no longer polygamous?

3. What does female physiology support?

4. From the Red Queen Theory, what do we learn about cheaters?

5. What do men universally prefer in their women?

6. What is a good explanation of why male and female brains are different?

7. What also seems to work with evolution to create changes in men and women?

8. What does the author think about the debates against nature versus nurture?

9. What do studies on the pine mole show about the differences between male and female pine mole minds?

10. What biological incentives are passed down to many males?

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