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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. Our ideas of attractiveness and our sexual inclinations seem to be _________.
(a) Accidental.
(b) Errors in judgement.
(c) Proven wrong by biology.
(d) Widespread and designed by evolution.

2. How do women prefer to live with men?
(a) In celibacy.
(b) In monogamy.
(c) In polygamy.
(d) In adultery .

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

4. Incest is most prevalent between___________.
(a) Fathers and daughters.
(b) Mothers and sons.
(c) Brothers and sisters.
(d) Uncles and nieces.

5. What type of male do women find the most attractive?
(a) Romantic and polygamous.
(b) Taller and wittier.
(c) Athletic.
(d) Bearded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What determines whether a child is French or English speaking?

2. Children who are raised together usually___________.

3. Young boys show a propensity for __________.

4. What was a natural human situation in many early societies?

5. What happens to children who do not hear language early on?

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

4. What do men universally prefer in their women?

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

6. Why else must men be intelligent?

7. What does female physiology support?

8. Who is the most likely to participate in incest?

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

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

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