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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. "The first is that all of human behavior is ______ and hence, biological evolution will have little effect on the next generation."
(a) Learned.
(b) Regrettable.
(c) Understood.
(d) Practiced.

6. What, in the author's opinion, supports his assertions concerning a female's desires for reproduction?
(a) Female actions.
(b) Studies that prove that women are unfaithful.
(c) Female physiology.
(d) Female thoughts.

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

8. How do women prefer to live with men?
(a) In adultery .
(b) In celibacy.
(c) In monogamy.
(d) In polygamy.

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

10. What is the development of language?
(a) A basic need for human evolution.
(b) A need for humans to spread gossip about sexual partners.
(c) A basic need for courtship.
(d) A basic need for survival of the species.

11. What is most male to male battle over in tribes?
(a) Women.
(b) Food.
(c) Money.
(d) Land.

12. Why are female chimps extremely promiscuous in large social groups?
(a) Males will not know which child is his, so he will protect all of them.
(b) They want to have many father options.
(c) They enjoy sex.
(d) It is part of choosing the most ideal mate.

13. Boys tend to be better at reasoning ______, whereas women excel in reasoning in terms of _______.
(a) Abstractly; particulars.
(b) Abstractly; generalities.
(c) Generalities; particulars.
(d) Particulars; the abstract.

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

15. What animals are only interested in exclusive fidelity?
(a) Gorillas.
(b) Humans.
(c) Gibbons.
(d) Bears.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a landscape what will girls pick out as being important?

2. Young girls show a propensity for _________.

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

4. Men seem to have an insatiable desire for this.

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

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