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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) Widespread and designed by evolution.
(c) Proven wrong by biology.
(d) Accidental.

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. Male and female brains are different because of __________.
(a) Natural selection
(b) The female's superiority.
(c) The male's superiority.
(d) Sexual selection.

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

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

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

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

11. According to the author, why did humans develop intelligence?
(a) Natural Selection.
(b) To work together and create better living surroundings.
(c) Sexual selection.
(d) Survival of the fittest.

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

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

14. Females are ______ more likely to have the right kind of orgasm and to become impregnated when unfaithful.
(a) 90 percent.
(b) 70 percent.
(c) 40 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What have anthropologists found to be a universal characteristic of humans across different cultures?

3. "The first is that all of human behavior is ______ and hence, biological evolution will have little effect on the next generation."

4. According to some arguments, why did larger brains evolve?

5. What is the development of language?

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