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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 lekking?
(a) A courtship dance among mammals.
(b) A sexual market where male birds congregate.
(c) A way for birds to mate.
(d) A time of mating for birds.

2. How do organisms compete during evolution?
(a) They kill their prey and one another to be the last person standing.
(b) They compete with each other to pass down more genes to the next generation.
(c) They kill their prey to ensure their survivors.
(d) They try to kill one another so that they might live.

3. Who cannot compete with males?
(a) Other males.
(b) Females.
(c) Masculine females.
(d) Hermaphrodites.

4. What kind of study does evolution become?
(a) How organisms become better over generations.
(b) A slow process.
(c) Functions of bodies and organisims as gene vehicles.
(d) Competition between friends.

5. When do women tend to have affairs?
(a) When their mate is unfaithful.
(b) When they are sad.
(c) When they are the most fertile.
(d) When their mate is gone for a long time.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did males evolve?

2. What accounts for far more deaths than other predators or environmental occurrences?

3. Male human beings expect to have their _______ compete with the ________ of other males.

4. What type of success does evolution care about?

5. What do women fantasize about?

(see the answer key)

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