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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a phase of colony defense?
(a) Alarm.
(b) Recruitment.
(c) Absconding.
(d) Contact.

2. Which of the following is NOT a reason for nest migration that Wilson describes in this text?
(a) Predation.
(b) Overcrowding.
(c) Climate change.
(d) Flooding.

3. Which of the following is NOT a factor distracting from optimal foraging within an ant colony?
(a) Weather.
(b) Accidents.
(c) Predators.
(d) Competition.

4. How many times their own body weight do Idaho harvester ants retrieve during their lifetime?
(a) Twice their body weight.
(b) 20 times their body weight.
(c) 200 times their body weight.
(d) 2000 times their body weight.

5. Which of the following is NOT a concern for major workers?
(a) Milling.
(b) Food storage.
(c) Self-grooming.
(d) Trophallaxis.

6. According to the study completed in 1984, what other function do the odor glands fulfill in ant colonies?
(a) Nesting map.
(b) Water preservation.
(c) Enemy alarm.
(d) Food storage.

7. What do young, nonreproductive ants do with their eggs?
(a) They bury them.
(b) They abandon them.
(c) They feed them to the queen.
(d) Nonreproductive ants do not produce eggs.

8. During what era did Crozier argue that scientists should not "discard kin selection in favor of parental manipulation" altering the way most scientists deal with kin selection?
(a) 1980's.
(b) 1970's.
(c) 1990's.
(d) 2000's.

9. Which of the following terms expresses the ideal of group production with the disregard of individual needs?
(a) Ergonomics.
(b) Hedonomics.
(c) Fillionomics.
(d) Tershonomics.

10. At what university were radioactive ants found in the 1960s?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Princeton.

11. What part of milling-major heads are adapted for their work?
(a) Their eyes.
(b) Their antennae.
(c) Their ears.
(d) Their mouths.

12. Which of the following is NOT a segment in an ant's body?
(a) The alitrunk.
(b) The gaster.
(c) The petiole.
(d) The kampf.

13. Who coined the term "social insects"?
(a) Wheeler.
(b) Morton.
(c) Holldobler.
(d) Wilson.

14. How fast can the desert ant run?
(a) 10 meters per second.
(b) 1 meter per second.
(c) 1 meter per minute.
(d) 10 meters per minute.

15. What is the smallest collection of ants that can still be considered a colony?
(a) 5000.
(b) 500.
(c) Five.
(d) 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following ants are considered most altruistic?

2. How many queens are present in a Monogyny ant colony?

3. On which species of ants was a study relating to worker ants, and their response to nutritional needs, performed?

4. Which of the following tasks is NOT a concern for minor workers?

5. Which of the following ant hormones is found in many vegetable oils?

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