The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Test | Final Test - Medium

Matt Ridley
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Test | Final Test - Medium

Matt Ridley
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. What seems to be partially the result of genetics?
(a) The ability to distinguish easily between objects.
(b) The ability to see certain objects as whole.
(c) The ability to see whole objects distinctly.
(d) The ability to distinguish easily between objects and to see certain objects as whole.

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

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

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

5. What age group do men find the most attractive?
(a) Women in their late teens.
(b) Women in their twenties.
(c) Women in their Thirties.
(d) Women in their forties.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do women like taller men?

2. What tends to stay private between humans?

3. When do women tend to have affairs?

4. What animals are only interested in exclusive fidelity?

5. What is a common suggestion for why people need intelligence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What need is human language built around?

2. What biological incentives are passed down to many males?

3. What explanation is given at the beginning of Chapter 9?

4. What is different between humans and primates?

5. What did Freud believe concerning incest?

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

7. What also seems to work with evolution to create changes in men and women?

8. Why are societies no longer polygamous?

9. When does sexual aversion to one's family occur?

10. Why else must men be intelligent?

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