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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of study does evolution become?
(a) How organisms become better over generations.
(b) Functions of bodies and organisims as gene vehicles.
(c) A slow process.
(d) Competition between friends.

2. Who argues that the mind is made up of many different "modules" that have evolved over time such as "fear snakes" and various cheater detection mechanisms?
(a) Cosmides and Tooby.
(b) Cosmides.
(c) No one.
(d) Tooby.

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

4. What is a common suggestion for why people need intelligence?
(a) Learning.
(b) The desire to look better than others.
(c) Slow instincts.
(d) Ability to improve themseleves.

5. Men excrete far more sperm when they ________________.
(a) Have been threatened by another male's attractiveness.
(b) Think their wives have been unfaithful.
(c) Suspect unfaithfullness in their wives or the wives have been gone for a while.
(d) Their wives have been absent for a long time.

Short Answer Questions

1. In many tribes, __________ of the population have lost family members to murder.

2. What does being fast allow for a gazelle to do?

3. What do the females of this same group prefer?

4. Who directly advocated for polygamy in early societies?

5. In a person's youth, what happens to them to thwart off incest?

(see the answer key)

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