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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What modern day society sometime practices polygamy?
(a) Extreme Mormonism.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) Catholicism.

4. In different times, when was marriage through cousins not appropriate?
(a) It was never appropriate.
(b) When large amounts of land were involved.
(c) When the marriage was between unequal partners.
(d) Whenever the parents did not want them to marry.

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

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

7. Why might cousins be attracted to each other?
(a) They want to preserve their bloodline.
(b) They always see each other.
(c) They miss being close to family.
(d) They are not raised together.

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

9. Does it pay to be intelligent and witty?
(a) No, because only money matters.
(b) Yes, because it is what women want.
(c) Yes, but only if you have money, too.
(d) Yes, but only if you have a formal education.

10. New evidence suggests that much of human learning is developed through __________.
(a) Instincts.
(b) Natural ability.
(c) Mistakes.
(d) Experiences.

11. Incest is most prevalent between___________.
(a) Uncles and nieces.
(b) Brothers and sisters.
(c) Fathers and daughters.
(d) Mothers and sons.

12. Human minds easily acquire new _____________, which is an advantage.
(a) Words.
(b) Information.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Feelings.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What tends to stay private between humans?

2. Male human beings expect to have their _______ compete with the ________ of other males.

3. When do women tend to have affairs?

4. Why are female chimps extremely promiscuous in large social groups?

5. What was a natural human situation in many early societies?

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