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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have mound building skills become?
(a) A coveted skill.
(b) A survival technique.
(c) Unimportant.
(d) A reproductive skill.

2. Although it becomes clear that sex is necessary to avoid parasites, what question remains?
(a) Why sex works the way it does.
(b) Whether or not sex is the best way to reproduce.
(c) How sex works.
(d) Why people enjoy sex.

3. The author believes that biological evolution and our environments _____________.
(a) Work together to change us.
(b) Are in constant competition.
(c) Cannot possibly ever work together.
(d) Are not compareable.

4. Why is this book called The Red Queen?
(a) The author thinks that the title is ironic.
(b) It is symbolic of higher level genetics.
(c) The landscape around the Queen moves as she moves. Evolutionary progress is relative to ones surroundings.
(d) The author has always enjoyed the character from Alice in Wonderland.

5. What modern day society sometime practices polygamy?
(a) Protestantism.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Extreme Mormonism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of study does evolution become?

2. How do species outwit killer viruses?

3. Who developed the Red Queen theory?

4. What genders are not always needed?

5. Ever since _____________ in the late 19th century, scientists have understood that all life forms are a product of biological evolution.

(see the answer key)

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