View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What tends to stay private between humans?

4. What type of success does evolution care about?

5. Which type of women are the most attractive to men?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do women universally prefer?

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

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

4. Why is male on male violence so detrimental?

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

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

7. What need is human language built around?

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

9. What do men prefer to be?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Most of the time, society dictates the way that women look and behave. How has sexual selection shaped the way women wish to look? How has biology shaped society and cultures? Is biology to blame for the extreme ways that women have shifted themselves to please men as mates?

Essay Topic 2

Why has the author chosen to write about the Red Queen Theory and the study of human nature? By studying, what does he eventually hope to learn? Do you think that he is successful in his search for knowledge?

Essay Topic 3

Ridley insists that while women prefer monogamy, they like to also have affairs on the side. How could Ridley's research be twisted or misconstrued to blame only women for being unfaithful? How could this possibly give men too much power?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 588 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample