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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What modern day society sometime practices polygamy?

2. What type of success does evolution care about?

3. Why might cousins be attracted to each other?

4. Why do women prefer more intelligent men?

5. What would the author like us to believe concerning nature versus nurture?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to children that do not learn language early?

3. What do men prefer to be?

4. When does sexual aversion to one's family occur?

5. What did Freud believe concerning incest?

6. Why else must men be intelligent?

7. In what societies and religions did polygamy flourish long ago?

8. What do women prefer to be?

9. What seems to be the best for most women and men and why?

10. What do men universally prefer in their women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Most of the time, society dictates the way that women look and behave. How has sexual selection shaped the way women wish to look? How has biology shaped society and cultures? Is biology to blame for the extreme ways that women have shifted themselves to please men as mates?

Essay Topic 2

Ridley insists that while women prefer monogamy, they like to also have affairs on the side. How could Ridley's research be twisted or misconstrued to blame only women for being unfaithful? How could this possibly give men too much power?

Essay Topic 3

Since Adam and Eve, women have been depicted as the temptresses. They cunningly lead men away from what is good or right. How much of this statement is actually true? Describe how women have been forced to take on the role of the evil character throughout history.

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