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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What type of male do women find the most attractive?
(a) Taller and wittier.
(b) Bearded.
(c) Athletic.
(d) Romantic and polygamous.

4. Who directly advocated for polygamy in early societies?
(a) Government groups.
(b) Religious groups.
(c) Pagan groups.
(d) Kings and queens.

5. Humans tend to be natural _________ who are able to predict and read the intentions of other people fairly easily.
(a) Gathers.
(b) Hunters.
(c) Psychologists.
(d) Emotionalists.

6. Throughout history, what has been a great reward for a leader?
(a) More women to mate with.
(b) More ability to bring in food.
(c) More land.
(d) Subjects that behave well.

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

8. Unlike other primates, humans do not publicly display their __________.
(a) Sex drives.
(b) Anger.
(c) Hope.
(d) Fertility.

9. What do apes and humans both prefer over being bored?
(a) Eating.
(b) Providing for their mates.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Entertainmant.

10. According to some arguments, why did larger brains evolve?
(a) As a means of retaining more knowledge.
(b) As a mechanism to deal with cheater detection.
(c) As a means of survival.
(d) As a way to work together with other humans.

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

12. What type of historical incident may have been a more frequent phenomenon than is commonly thought?
(a) Polygamy in the Catholic Church.
(b) Divorces throughout history.
(c) Illegitimate sons and daughters.
(d) The conflict between Henry the VIII and the church over divorce.

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

14. What is the "Machiavellian" hypothesis?
(a) Neighbors and fellow humans are always against you.
(b) Humans need greater and greater intelligence to scheme better than their neighbors and rivals.
(c) Protect yourself at all costs, even if you must kill your neighbor.
(d) Humans will never scheme against one another.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Most modern societies are _________.

2. Homosexual men tend to be like __________ men and lesbians tend to be more like _______ women.

3. The author believes that biological evolution and our environments _____________.

4. Why do women prefer more intelligent men?

5. In different times, when was marriage through cousins not appropriate?

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