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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do women prefer more intelligent men?
(a) They are less intimidating.
(b) They can be funny.
(c) They are less boring.
(d) They make more money.

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

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

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

5. What is in the true interest of a female in reproduction?
(a) Polygamy.
(b) Infidelity.
(c) Altruism.
(d) Monogamy.

6. What was a natural human situation in many early societies?
(a) Biological selection.
(b) Monogamy.
(c) Polygamy.
(d) Natural selection.

7. Specifically, what did these rules mandate?
(a) The people must live with their many wives and support them.
(b) People were given divorces if they were unhappy.
(c) Prevent sex and divorce among the upper class.
(d) To make having multiple wives legal.

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

9. What do humans living in groups need to be able to tell about individuals in the group?
(a) When someone is telling the truth.
(b) If someone has ill feelings toward someone else.
(c) If the group is healthy and functional.
(d) When one group member is cheating or breaking the rules

10. Who suggested the idea that language acquisition is partly the result of an innate or genetically acquired ability to learn grammar?
(a) Lamarck.
(b) Chomsky.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Dawkins.

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

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

13. Thinking that male and female brains are different is often thought to be_______.
(a) Wrong.
(b) Hateful.
(c) Discriminatory.
(d) Misguided.

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

15. Why does the author think that there is now so much monogamy in humans?
(a) It is easier to be in a relationship with one person.
(b) It is much less expensive.
(c) Man's competitor in the sexual arms race (women) want it.
(d) Males and females want to focus on one set of children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do women need men?

2. Our notions of beauty do not seem to be _________.

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

4. According to the author, why did humans develop intelligence?

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

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