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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes a man's brain to change in the womb?
(a) Endocrine.
(b) A dose of progesterone.
(c) Estrogen.
(d) A dose of testosterone.

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

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

4. What seems to be partially the result of genetics?
(a) The ability to see whole objects distinctly.
(b) The ability to see certain objects as whole.
(c) The ability to distinguish easily between objects and to see certain objects as whole.
(d) The ability to distinguish easily between objects.

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

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

7. Male human beings expect to have their _______ compete with the ________ of other males.
(a) Wealth.
(b) Attractiveness.
(c) Sperm.
(d) Love.

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

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

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

11. Chapter 9 begins with __________.
(a) A dissertation concerning new ideas.
(b) The potential genetic basis of homosexuality.
(c) A mistaken identity.
(d) A discussion between morals.

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

13. Men seem to have an insatiable desire for this.
(a) Sex.
(b) Money.
(c) Food.
(d) Work.

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

15. Children who are raised together usually___________.
(a) Have a .chaotic relationship.
(b) Have a competitive spirit.
(c) Have an aversion to incest.
(d) Have a propensity for incest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do genes provide?

2. Why does the author think that there is now so much monogamy in humans?

3. Why might cousins be attracted to each other?

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

5. Boys tend to be better at reasoning ______, whereas women excel in reasoning in terms of _______.

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