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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to children who do not hear language early on?
(a) They will not be able to read.
(b) They become deaf.
(c) They won't be able to talk.
(d) They loose their ability to learn language.

2. Why do women like taller men?
(a) Taller men enhance the woman's femininity.
(b) Taller men are more athletic.
(c) Taller men can better protect them.
(d) Taller men are stronger.

3. What is negative about having many females?
(a) It is too time consuming.
(b) Too many children are born.
(c) They do not get along with each other.
(d) It is very expensive.

4. What combination do people find mostly attractive?
(a) Youth.
(b) Youth, fertility, and facial symmetry.
(c) Facial symmetry.
(d) Fertility.

5. "The first is that all of human behavior is ______ and hence, biological evolution will have little effect on the next generation."
(a) Understood.
(b) Practiced.
(c) Regrettable.
(d) Learned.

6. According to Freud, a human's tendency is toward _________.
(a) Dismissing infidelity.
(b) Maintaining fidelity.
(c) Incest between family members.
(d) Their family's acceptance.

7. What would the author like us to believe concerning nature versus nurture?
(a) The two compete.
(b) Instead of being competitive, the two are complementary to each other.
(c) Nurture is more influential than nature.
(d) Nature is more influential than nurture.

8. Natural selection is a prerequisite of __________.
(a) Natural selection.
(b) Evolution's success.
(c) Sexual selection.
(d) Survival success.

9. Instead of this aspect, what are men really wanting as they are driven by biology?
(a) Larger feet.
(b) Larger breasts.
(c) Waist to hip ratio of a women.
(d) Broader shoulders.

10. Of the following options, what do humans do best?
(a) Pick out faithful people.
(b) Perform the same logical task in a non-social context.
(c) Pick out cheaters in a social context.
(d) Gossip about friends and neighbors.

11. What type of success does evolution care about?
(a) Sexual rather than survival success.
(b) Biological evolution.
(c) Natural selection.
(d) Survival success.

12. According to the author, what is a female version of pornography?
(a) Telling stories about their sexual lives.
(b) Romance novels.
(c) Female pornography.
(d) Shopping.

13. How do males fantasize?
(a) They do not fantasize.
(b) They think of several women.
(c) They only think about one woman.
(d) They concentrate on the sexual act itself.

14. In a person's youth, what happens to them to thwart off incest?
(a) They are punished if they attempt it.
(b) They are imprinted with an aversion toward incest.
(c) They are not told about incest.
(d) They are told that it is evil.

15. What do genes provide?
(a) The basis for the limits and the capabilities of humans.
(b) The survival of a species.
(c) Positive traits to pass down.
(d) A holding tank for DNA.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did males evolve?

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

3. What tends to stay private between humans?

4. Most modern societies are _________.

5. Females are ______ more likely to have the right kind of orgasm and to become impregnated when unfaithful.

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