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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do women like taller men?
(a) Taller men can better protect them.
(b) Taller men are stronger.
(c) Taller men are more athletic.
(d) Taller men enhance the woman's femininity.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Children who are raised together usually___________.

2. Differences hold ___________, regardless of race, ethnicity, or culture.

3. Specifically, what did these rules mandate?

4. New evidence suggests that much of human learning is developed through __________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When Ridley says that male and female brains are different, what type of tone does he have?

2. What seems to be the best for most women and men and why?

3. What does female physiology support?

4. What do men universally prefer in their women?

5. When given pictures with landscapes and people, what differences do boys and girls have?

6. What is a good explanation of why male and female brains are different?

7. What happens to children that do not learn language early?

8. What do men prefer to be?

9. From the Red Queen Theory, what do we learn about cheaters?

10. Why are societies no longer polygamous?

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