2. What is considered the final stage of a mature ant colony?
(a) The Ergonomic Stage.
(b) The Founding Stage.
(c) The Reproductive Stage.
(d) The Virgin Stage.

3. How many categories of ant communication are there?
(a) 18.
(b) 21.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

4. What is the fastest way to increase the size of an ant colony?
(a) Increase the number of male ants.
(b) Increase the number of queens.
(c) Increase the number of workers.
(d) Increase the number of female ants.

5. Which of the following is NOT a method of foraging discussed in this novel?
(a) Solitary foraging.
(b) Group retrieval.
(c) Central-place foraging.
(d) Decay foraging.

6. Which of the following species of ants is known to cover their queen during immigration from one nest to another?
(a) Leaf cutter ants.
(b) Haploid number ants.
(c) African weaver ants.
(d) Driver ants.

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

8. What did scientist Santschi find that ants follow, during his experiment in 1911?
(a) The wind.
(b) The moon.
(c) The sun.
(d) The pull of gravity.

9. What happens when a queen ant is found to be infertile?
(a) She becomes a worker ant.
(b) She is killed.
(c) She is expelled from the colony.
(d) She is ignored.

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

11. Which of the following groups of ants spends the most time self-grooming?
(a) They all spend equal amounts of time self-grooming.
(b) Queens.
(c) Minor workers.
(d) Major workers.

12. How many levels of genealogical relationships do sweat bees have with one another?
(a) 21.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

13. What happens in during pleometriosis?
(a) Multiple queens work together to physically eliminate a powerful queen.
(b) Multiple queens battle for power within a colony.
(c) Multiple queens from one colony start multiple nests that do not relate.
(d) Multiple queens start a colony together.

14. Which of the following was the first scientist to discuss kin selection in ants?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Lin.
(c) Hamilton.
(d) Michener.

15. Which of the following worlds does Wilson claim that ants run?
(a) The coastal world.
(b) All of the above.
(c) The terrestrial world.
(d) The aquatic world.