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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church created many rules to prevent __________.
(a) Rulers from creating too many subbordinates.
(b) Rulers from creating legitimate heirs.
(c) Women from taking on important rules in society.
(d) Rulers from creating illegitimate heirs.

2. What are the human female's interest concerning reproduction and mating?
(a) They want an ideal husband.
(b) Women only want many partners to make the best babies.
(c) Females do not want to have babies.
(d) Ideal husband for reproduction and reproductive partners on the sly.

3. What determines whether a child is French or English speaking?
(a) The geographical location of their birth.
(b) Their free will.
(c) Their mother.
(d) Their experiences (nature).

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

5. When do women tend to have affairs?
(a) When their mate is gone for a long time.
(b) When their mate is unfaithful.
(c) When they are sad.
(d) When they are the most fertile.

6. Which type of women are the most attractive to men?
(a) Thinner women.
(b) Taller women.
(c) Kinder women.
(d) Fatter women.

7. 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) Tooby.
(d) No one.

8. How did males evolve?
(a) Simultaneously with females.
(b) Waiting for females.
(c) Alone.
(d) With much difficulty.

9. Homosexual men tend to be like __________ men and lesbians tend to be more like _______ women.
(a) Heterosexual; homosexual.
(b) Heterosexual; heterosexual.
(c) Homosexual; heterosexual.
(d) Homosexual; Homosexual.

10. In many tribes, __________ of the population have lost family members to murder.
(a) One third.
(b) Two thirds.
(c) One half.
(d) Three fourths.

11. What is the development of language?
(a) A need for humans to spread gossip about sexual partners.
(b) A basic need for courtship.
(c) A basic need for human evolution.
(d) A basic need for survival of the species.

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

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

14. Differences hold ___________, regardless of race, ethnicity, or culture.
(a) Universal.
(b) Only sometimes.
(c) True.
(d) All of the time.

15. Are there strong taboos against cousin marriage?
(a) Yes, but it depends on the culture.
(b) No, because cousins are not closely related.
(c) Yes, because cousins are too close.
(d) Less harsh taboos because cousins are not raised together.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of this aspect, what are men really wanting as they are driven by biology?

2. Men excrete far more sperm when they ________________.

3. Why do women prefer more intelligent men?

4. What happens to children who do not hear language early on?

5. What is in the true interest of a female in reproduction?

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