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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In many tribes, __________ of the population have lost family members to murder.
(a) One third.
(b) Three fourths.
(c) One half.
(d) Two thirds.

4. Why do women need men?
(a) To be lifetime partners.
(b) To continue making children.
(c) To help raise and provide for their children.
(d) To educate their children.

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

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

7. What is a common suggestion for why people need intelligence?
(a) The desire to look better than others.
(b) Learning.
(c) Ability to improve themseleves.
(d) Slow instincts.

8. Young girls show a propensity for _________.
(a) Science.
(b) Verbal tasks.
(c) Physical activity.
(d) Math.

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

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

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

12. What is clear about what women want in a mate?
(a) Men who are smart but have no chance of rising in status.
(b) High status men that have the ability to rise in the status hierarchy.
(c) Middle class men.
(d) Men who are thin.

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

14. If a male misses the change of his brain in the womb, what happens to him?
(a) He is too masculine.
(b) He is bisexual.
(c) He is more feminine.
(d) He is homosexual.

15. What type of success does evolution care about?
(a) Survival success.
(b) Biological evolution.
(c) Sexual rather than survival success.
(d) Natural selection.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do women tend to have affairs?

2. What animals are only interested in exclusive fidelity?

3. Who directly advocated for polygamy in early societies?

4. Our ideas of attractiveness and our sexual inclinations seem to be _________.

5. What tends to stay private between humans?

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