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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?
(a) Sex.
(b) Asexual reproduction.
(c) Fission.
(d) Viruses.

2. Why do women like taller men?
(a) Taller men enhance the woman's femininity.
(b) Taller men are more athletic.
(c) Taller men are stronger.
(d) Taller men can better protect them.

3. What accusation does the author make against women?
(a) They hate seeing men happy.
(b) They wish to spend all of a man's money.
(c) They enjoy adulterous affairs.
(d) They like making men's lives difficult.

4. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?
(a) It kills other organisms that participate in it.
(b) The organism decided to self replicate.
(c) The organism gave up sexual reproduction.
(d) It is extinct and cannot be studied.

5. Thinking that male and female brains are different is often thought to be_______.
(a) Hateful.
(b) Misguided.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Discriminatory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes a man's brain to change in the womb?

2. Why is this book called The Red Queen?

3. What, in the author's opinion, supports his assertions concerning a female's desires for reproduction?

4. What do male primates do to their female's children who are not also their children?

5. In which cultures are male babies especially prized?

(see the answer key)

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