The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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 | Eight Week Quiz F

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 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Females are ______ more likely to have the right kind of orgasm and to become impregnated when unfaithful.
(a) 50 percent.
(b) 40 percent.
(c) 90 percent.
(d) 70 percent.

2. How does evolution work?
(a) Without competition between organisms.
(b) Change is continuous.
(c) Different adaptations of an individual which give a reproductive edge.
(d) Very slowly, over thousands of years.

3. How does Chapter 5 begin?
(a) With observations about pine moles.
(b) With an explanation of courtship.
(c) With mating behavior of Australian brush turkeys.
(d) With the story of a fisherman.

4. What animals are only interested in exclusive fidelity?
(a) Gibbons.
(b) Humans.
(c) Bears.
(d) Gorillas.

5. Boys tend to be better at reasoning ______, whereas women excel in reasoning in terms of _______.
(a) Abstractly; particulars.
(b) Generalities; particulars.
(c) Abstractly; generalities.
(d) Particulars; the abstract.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have mound building skills become?

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

3. Men and women behave and perform certain roles in every _______ and _____.

4. Thinking that male and female brains are different is often thought to be_______.

5. Organisms that reproduce sexually will pass immunity or defenses down to whom?

(see the answer key)

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