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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 Caste and Division of Labor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of herbaceous plant species are distributed by ants in New York?
(a) 30 percent.
(b) 70 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

2. Which of the following is NOT a theory of polygynus discussed in the novel?
(a) Colony Fusion.
(b) Pleometriosis.
(c) Queen Adoption.
(d) Twin Birth.

3. What is the smallest collection of ants that can still be considered a colony?
(a) 50.
(b) Five.
(c) 500.
(d) 5000.

4. What month of the year is considered the "nuptial flight" month for ant species?
(a) April.
(b) July.
(c) October.
(d) January.

5. Who removes a newly fertilized queen ant's wings?
(a) Her partner removes them.
(b) Her wings dissolve after fertilization.
(c) She removes them herself.
(d) Her young remove them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the Amazon rainforest is composed of ants and other insects?

2. In the woodlands of New England, ants move as much soil as what other insect?

3. What are gamergates?

4. At what university were radioactive ants found in the 1960s?

5. Which of the following groups of ants is most likely to eat a dead nest mate?

(see the answer key)

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