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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What can a psychiatrist expect to find in all people?
(a) Psychopathic behavior.
(b) Extreme emotions and rational behaviors.
(c) No similarities in emotions.
(d) Similar emotions and behaviors.
2. How does the Red Queen begin?
(a) With a discussion about the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland.
(b) With a discussion of asexual organisms.
(c) With a story of Martians.
(d) With a discussion of human nature.
3. How do organisms compete during evolution?
(a) They compete with each other to pass down more genes to the next generation.
(b) They kill their prey to ensure their survivors.
(c) They kill their prey and one another to be the last person standing.
(d) They try to kill one another so that they might live.
4. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?
(a) Asexual reproduction.
(b) Asexual and Sexual Reproduction.
(c) Same-sex Reproduction.
(d) Sexual Reproduction.
5. How do species outwit killer viruses?
(a) Asexual reproduction.
(b) Splitting cells.
(c) With their brains.
(d) Sexual reproduction.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the main focus of the novel?
2. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?
3. What is sexual selection?
4. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?
5. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.
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