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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much of the Amazon rainforest is composed of ants and other insects?
(a) One-half.
(b) One-third.
(c) All of it.
(d) One-fourth.

2. Who removes a newly fertilized queen ant's wings?
(a) She removes them herself.
(b) Her partner removes them.
(c) Her young remove them.
(d) Her wings dissolve after fertilization.

3. How do ants communicate?
(a) Through chemical emissions.
(b) Ants do not communicate.
(c) Through a complex pattern of squeaks.
(d) Through antennae movement.

4. What is another way of defining pheromonal communication?
(a) Group communication.
(b) Liquid communication.
(c) Attack communication.
(d) Chemical communication.

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

6. Which of the following is NOT an example of ritualized communication?
(a) Body movement.
(b) Visual features.
(c) Odor excretion.
(d) Organ tapping.

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

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

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

10. Which of the following is NOT part of an ant's head?
(a) The clypeal carina.
(b) The mesothoracic spiracle.
(c) The median seta.
(d) The lateral setae.

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

12. Which of the following is NOT a way ant species deal with their dead?
(a) Discarding the dead.
(b) Abandoning the dead.
(c) Cannibaling the dead.
(d) Burying the dead.

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

14. Which of the following species of ants is NOT considered territorial?
(a) Leaf cutter ants.
(b) Honeypot ants.
(c) Harvesting ants.
(d) Weaver ants.

15. What type of hierarchy does Wilson use to describe an ant colony?
(a) Subliminal hierarchy.
(b) Dense hierarchy.
(c) Veiled hierarchy.
(d) Functional hierarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which part of an ant's body is used most during kin recognition?

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

3. What are gamergates?

4. How are alien species treated when they enter the nest?

5. How many times their own body weight do Idaho harvester ants retrieve during their lifetime?

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