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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tends to stay private between humans?
(a) Sex.
(b) Money.
(c) Child-bearing.
(d) Gossip.

2. According to the author, what is a female version of pornography?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Romance novels.
(c) Telling stories about their sexual lives.
(d) Female pornography.

3. From this, what seems clear?
(a) Men and women have the same minds.
(b) Men and women should not think they have equal minds.
(c) Men and women must have different minds.
(d) The minds of women and men are unequal.

4. Which type of women are the most attractive to men?
(a) Taller women.
(b) Fatter women.
(c) Kinder women.
(d) Thinner women.

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

6. What accusation does the author make against women?
(a) They enjoy adulterous affairs.
(b) They hate seeing men happy.
(c) They wish to spend all of a man's money.
(d) They like making men's lives difficult.

7. "The first is that all of human behavior is ______ and hence, biological evolution will have little effect on the next generation."
(a) Regrettable.
(b) Learned.
(c) Understood.
(d) Practiced.

8. What is a powerful force that is influenced by and influences evolution?
(a) Religion.
(b) Culture.
(c) Sexual attraction.
(d) Individual thoughts.

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

10. According to the author, why did humans develop intelligence?
(a) Sexual selection.
(b) To work together and create better living surroundings.
(c) Survival of the fittest.
(d) Natural Selection.

11. Why do women prefer more intelligent men?
(a) They are less boring.
(b) They can be funny.
(c) They make more money.
(d) They are less intimidating.

12. 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?
(a) No one.
(b) Cosmides and Tooby.
(c) Tooby.
(d) Cosmides.

13. Who directly advocated for polygamy in early societies?
(a) Government groups.
(b) Pagan groups.
(c) Religious groups.
(d) Kings and queens.

14. In a person's youth, what happens to them to thwart off incest?
(a) They are not told about incest.
(b) They are imprinted with an aversion toward incest.
(c) They are punished if they attempt it.
(d) They are told that it is evil.

15. In a landscape, what will boys pick out as being important?
(a) Memories.
(b) Objects.
(c) Voices.
(d) People.

Short Answer Questions

1. Specifically, what did these rules mandate?

2. Humans tend to be natural _________ who are able to predict and read the intentions of other people fairly easily.

3. Human minds easily acquire new _____________, which is an advantage.

4. Natural selection is a prerequisite of __________.

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

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