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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was polygamy stamped out?
(a) When women protested it.
(b) As governments solidified the institution of marriage.
(c) The people demanded it.
(d) Religion decided it wanted exclusive marriage.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Incest is most prevalent between___________.
(a) Uncles and nieces.
(b) Fathers and daughters.
(c) Brothers and sisters.
(d) Mothers and sons.

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

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

10. What accusation does the author make against women?
(a) They wish to spend all of a man's money.
(b) They hate seeing men happy.
(c) They like making men's lives difficult.
(d) They enjoy adulterous affairs.

11. "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.

12. Why does the male pine mole visit many different tunnels?
(a) To increase the chance of survival.
(b) To eat all of the stored food.
(c) To escape the females.
(d) To see his many wives.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Are there strong taboos against cousin marriage?

2. According to Freud, a human's tendency is toward _________.

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

4. Young boys show a propensity for __________.

5. What type of male do women find the most attractive?

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