The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Matt Ridley
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Matt Ridley
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?
(a) Once an advantage is gained, the loser will adapt to negate the advantage.
(b) World War II.
(c) People will try to kill one another so that their genes may carry on.
(d) No one can catch up.

2. 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.

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

4. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.
(a) Evolutionary arms race.
(b) Low pregnancy rate.
(c) High pregnancy rate.
(d) Slow genetics of men.

5. What causes a man's brain to change in the womb?
(a) Endocrine.
(b) A dose of testosterone.
(c) A dose of progesterone.
(d) Estrogen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is attractiveness always the only criteria for mate selection?

2. If there are too many males, it will eventually be better to be a ____________.

3. How does Chapter 2 begin?

4. What is the main focus of the novel?

5. In a person's youth, what happens to them to thwart off incest?

(see the answer key)

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