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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 determines whether a child is French or English speaking?
(a) The geographical location of their birth.
(b) Their mother.
(c) Their free will.
(d) Their experiences (nature).

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What accusation does the author make against women?

2. What is clear about what women want in a mate?

3. Who argues that the mind is made up of many different "modules" that have evolved over time such as "fear snakes" and various cheater detection mechanisms?

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

5. Who suggested the idea that language acquisition is partly the result of an innate or genetically acquired ability to learn grammar?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Freud believe concerning incest?

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

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

5. Over the milennia, how have men and women evolved?

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

7. Why else must men be intelligent?

8. Unfortunately, what is very common in many primate groups?

9. As the author ends the book, what do we begin to understand about the Red Queen Theory?

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

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