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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Our ideas of attractiveness and our sexual inclinations seem to be _________.
(a) Errors in judgement.
(b) Proven wrong by biology.
(c) Accidental.
(d) Widespread and designed by evolution.

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) Tooby.
(b) Cosmides and Tooby.
(c) No one.
(d) Cosmides.

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

4. Boys tend to be better at reasoning ______, whereas women excel in reasoning in terms of _______.
(a) Particulars; the abstract.
(b) Generalities; particulars.
(c) Abstractly; generalities.
(d) Abstractly; particulars.

5. What accusation does the author make against women?
(a) They wish to spend all of a man's money.
(b) They hate seeing men happy.
(c) They enjoy adulterous affairs.
(d) They like making men's lives difficult.

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

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

8. What age group do men find the most attractive?
(a) Women in their twenties.
(b) Women in their Thirties.
(c) Women in their forties.
(d) Women in their late teens.

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

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

11. What tends to stay private between humans?
(a) Sex.
(b) Gossip.
(c) Money.
(d) Child-bearing.

12. Why does the male pine mole visit many different tunnels?
(a) To see his many wives.
(b) To escape the females.
(c) To eat all of the stored food.
(d) To increase the chance of survival.

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

14. What have anthropologists found to be a universal characteristic of humans across different cultures?
(a) Hate.
(b) Desire.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Depression.

15. What do women fantasize about?
(a) A large number of men.
(b) Being alone.
(c) Having children.
(d) A smaller number of men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Young girls show a propensity for _________.

2. Incest is most prevalent between___________.

3. What do genes provide?

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

5. New evidence suggests that much of human learning is developed through __________.

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