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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is modulatory communication?
(a) Communication to the queen.
(b) Communication in regards to alien attack.
(c) Communication meant to alter another's behavior.
(d) Communication for the purpose of reproduction.

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

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

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

5. From what gland do ants lay odor trails leading to food sources?
(a) Metapleural gland.
(b) Dufour gland.
(c) Propharyngeal gland.
(d) Maxillary gland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a group of insects?

2. Who removes a newly fertilized queen ant's wings?

3. Which of the following types of ants maintain many different nests although they only live in one at a time?

4. Which of the following species of ants performed poorest during a study of group transportation?

5. What differentiates aldates from other ants in a colony?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens during the ergonomic stage of an ant colony?

2. How is altruistic behavior in ant colonies defined?

3. What is the Hymenoptera order, and how do ants fit in this order?

4. What controversy surrounds the ant fossil discovered in the Victoria, Australia by Jell and Duncan in 1986?

5. What is acoustic communication? How is it achieved within an ant community?

6. What are "sibling species?"

7. How do various ant species, as discussed in this novel, protect their nests from spiders?

8. What realization did scientists make about the Myrmica ants ability to differentiate larvae from eggs?

9. What factors affect the success of foraging within an ant colony?

10. How has the rearing of isolated ant larvae affected scientists' understanding of reductionism?

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