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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do genes seek through the actions of the bodies that contain them?
(a) To be upgraded.
(b) Change.
(c) Replication.
(d) Evolution.

2. What is the main focus of the novel?
(a) To study asexual reproduction.
(b) Parts of human nature are products of sexual selection.
(c) To understand the advances in same-sex reproduction.
(d) To compare sexual and asexual reproduction.

3. What can a psychiatrist expect to find in all people?
(a) No similarities in emotions.
(b) Similar emotions and behaviors.
(c) Extreme emotions and rational behaviors.
(d) Psychopathic behavior.

4. In humans, what does evolution rely on?
(a) Sexual and asexual reproduction.
(b) Asexual reproduction.
(c) Sexual Reproduction.
(d) Fission.

5. What is sexual selection?
(a) Irrational mating between humans.
(b) Random mating between humans.
(c) Selection based on the appeal of a potential mate.
(d) Selection based on the strength of a mate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of civilization do the New Guinea tribes have?

2. How do organisms compete during evolution?

3. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.

4. In 1970, __________ argued that the individual is merely a container for genes.

5. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?

(see the answer key)

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