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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 do humans living in groups need to be able to tell about individuals in the group?
(a) When one group member is cheating or breaking the rules
(b) When someone is telling the truth.
(c) If the group is healthy and functional.
(d) If someone has ill feelings toward someone else.

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

3. What do male primates do to their female's children who are not also their children?
(a) Kill the female for having children from another mate.
(b) Kill the children that are not their own.
(c) Take care of all the children.
(d) Ignore the children who are not their own.

4. What is the "Machiavellian" hypothesis?
(a) Humans will never scheme against one another.
(b) Neighbors and fellow humans are always against you.
(c) Protect yourself at all costs, even if you must kill your neighbor.
(d) Humans need greater and greater intelligence to scheme better than their neighbors and rivals.

5. Natural selection is a prerequisite of __________.
(a) Evolution's success.
(b) Sexual selection.
(c) Survival success.
(d) Natural selection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the human female's interest concerning reproduction and mating?

2. How do women prefer to live with men?

3. "The first is that all of human behavior is ______ and hence, biological evolution will have little effect on the next generation."

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

5. What tends to stay private between humans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do men universally prefer in their women?

2. What does the author think about the debates against nature versus nurture?

3. What do studies on the pine mole show about the differences between male and female pine mole minds?

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

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

6. What do men prefer to be?

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

8. Why else must men be intelligent?

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

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

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