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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Men seem to have an insatiable desire for this.
(a) Work.
(b) Sex.
(c) Food.
(d) Money.

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

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

4. According to Freud, a human's tendency is toward _________.
(a) Maintaining fidelity.
(b) Their family's acceptance.
(c) Incest between family members.
(d) Dismissing infidelity.

5. Of the following options, what do humans do best?
(a) Pick out faithful people.
(b) Perform the same logical task in a non-social context.
(c) Gossip about friends and neighbors.
(d) Pick out cheaters in a social context.

6. How do males fantasize?
(a) They do not fantasize.
(b) They only think about one woman.
(c) They think of several women.
(d) They concentrate on the sexual act itself.

7. Most modern societies are _________.
(a) Fundamentalist.
(b) Monogamous.
(c) Uncivilized.
(d) Polygamous.

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

9. What modern day society sometime practices polygamy?
(a) Extreme Mormonism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Protestantism.

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

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

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

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

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

15. Men and women behave and perform certain roles in every _______ and _____.
(a) Culture; society.
(b) Culture; country.
(c) Country; culture.
(d) Society; culture.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Homosexual men tend to be like __________ men and lesbians tend to be more like _______ women.

4. Why might cousins be attracted to each other?

5. What would the author like us to believe concerning nature versus nurture?

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