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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. Which of the following is NOT a ways Wilson describes foreign ants being treated?
(a) They are accepted, but withheld food.
(b) They are forced to lock mandibles in a dual.
(c) They are killed.
(d) They are pestered with constant nipping and leg pulling.

2. Which of the following is NOT a reason Wilson gives as to how colonies manage their queen numbers?
(a) Physical Elimination.
(b) Reproductive Castration.
(c) Emigration.
(d) Egg Defect.

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

4. Which of the following groups of ants does the least amount of physical work within the colony?
(a) Fertile female ants.
(b) Male ants.
(c) Queen ants.
(d) Sterile female ants.

5. Which of the following ants are considered most altruistic?
(a) Nonreproductive.
(b) Queens.
(c) Larvae.
(d) Male drone workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a genus of ant that participates in polygyny?

2. What percentage of ant colonies are lost due to ground-feeding birds?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways biomass is measured?

4. Which of the following scientists pointed out that colonies of social insects tend to be more harmonious when the members are all closely related?

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

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