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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although it becomes clear that sex is necessary to avoid parasites, what question remains?
(a) How sex works.
(b) Why people enjoy sex.
(c) Whether or not sex is the best way to reproduce.
(d) Why sex works the way it does.

2. From this, what seems clear?
(a) Men and women must have different minds.
(b) Men and women have the same minds.
(c) The minds of women and men are unequal.
(d) Men and women should not think they have equal minds.

3. How does Chapter 5 begin?
(a) With the story of a fisherman.
(b) With observations about pine moles.
(c) With mating behavior of Australian brush turkeys.
(d) With an explanation of courtship.

4. In a landscape what will girls pick out as being important?
(a) Memories.
(b) Objects.
(c) Voices.
(d) People.

5. Organisms that reproduce sexually will pass immunity or defenses down to whom?
(a) Their spouses.
(b) Their friends.
(c) Their descendants.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes a man's brain to change in the womb?

2. What does the story in Chapter 5 prove for the author?

3. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?

4. What is the "sexy-sons" theory?

5. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?

(see the answer key)

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