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

2. What have anthropologists found to be a universal characteristic of humans across different cultures?
(a) Depression.
(b) Desire.
(c) Hate.
(d) Jealousy.

3. Our notions of beauty do not seem to be _________.
(a) Fruitful.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Frivolous.
(d) Coincidental.

4. What happens to children who do not hear language early on?
(a) They won't be able to talk.
(b) They will not be able to read.
(c) They become deaf.
(d) They loose their ability to learn language.

5. Why might cousins be attracted to each other?
(a) They always see each other.
(b) They are not raised together.
(c) They miss being close to family.
(d) They want to preserve their bloodline.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are female chimps extremely promiscuous in large social groups?

2. The author believes that biological evolution and our environments _____________.

3. In many tribes, __________ of the population have lost family members to murder.

4. Male and female brains are different because of __________.

5. Boys tend to be better at reasoning ______, whereas women excel in reasoning in terms of _______.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is male on male violence so detrimental?

2. What does female physiology support?

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

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

5. In what societies and religions did polygamy flourish long ago?

6. Why does the author think that humans developed intelligence?

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

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

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

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

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