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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the colloquial name for the ant species "Monomorium pharanaomis"?
(a) Queen's ants.
(b) Pharaoh's ants.
(c) Sphynx ants.
(d) Cleopatra's ants.

2. Which of the following physical attributes signifies a queen within a swarm of ants?
(a) Wings.
(b) Size.
(c) Odor.
(d) Coloration.

3. Which of the following is NOT an insect phenomenon documented in the opening of this novel?
(a) The hierarchy in control processes.
(b) The social effects of monarchical rule.
(c) The shaping of castes through natural selection.
(d) The effects of competition on community structure.

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

5. In the woodlands of New England, ants move as much soil as what other insect?
(a) Armadillidiidae.
(b) Centipedes.
(c) Earthworms.
(d) Scarab Beetles.

6. Which of the following groups within an ant colony produces the strongest identification odor?
(a) Larvae ants.
(b) Worker ants.
(c) Queen ants.
(d) Sexually mature ants.

7. What does the stridulatory organ in an ant's anatomy do?
(a) Emits odors.
(b) Makes sound.
(c) Processes scent.
(d) Vibrates with sound.

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

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

10. Which of the following scientists pointed out that colonies of social insects tend to be more harmonious when the members are all closely related?
(a) Goetsch.
(b) Bier.
(c) Sherman.
(d) Hung.

11. Which of the following is NOT a genus of ant that participates in polygyny?
(a) Dolichoderinae.
(b) Fungeralinae.
(c) Ponerianae.
(d) Myrmeciinae.

12. Which of the following types of ants maintain many different nests although they only live in one at a time?
(a) Weaver ants.
(b) Leaf cutter ants.
(c) Fire ants
(d) Army ants.

13. What is the colloquial name for the ant species "Paratrechina longicornis"?
(a) Timid ants.
(b) Ugly ants.
(c) Fat ants.
(d) Crazy ants.

14. Which of the following is NOT a theory of polygynus discussed in the novel?
(a) Pleometriosis.
(b) Queen Adoption.
(c) Twin Birth.
(d) Colony Fusion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Creighton create his useful review of "Ants North of Mexico"?

2. Which of the following lands is NOT free of ant species?

3. What are gamergates?

4. How do ants communicate?

5. Which of the following elements was brought by ants to the Amazon rainforest?

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