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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?
(a) Why there are men and women.
(b) Why babies are hard to keep alive.
(c) How babies are made.
(d) More ways that evolution can work against organisims.

2. What was the 16th century cleric known for besides his scientific theories?
(a) Switching between Catholic and Protestant religions.
(b) Being a survivor of Protestant ridicule.
(c) His sermons.
(d) Killing Catholics.

3. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?
(a) Sexual reproduction should not exist.
(b) Sexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
(c) Same-sex reproduction must be understood to understand sexual reproduction.
(d) Asexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.

4. Due to the ________________, traits that increase reproductive successes will spread and those that do not will expire.
(a) Evolutionary arms race.
(b) Slow genetics of men.
(c) High pregnancy rate.
(d) Low pregnancy rate.

5. Who created the tangled bank theory?
(a) Leigh Van Valen.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Graham Bell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does being fast allow for a gazelle to do?

2. What is the lottery theory?

3. How does Chapter 2 begin?

4. What is sexual selection?

5. What do organisms that reproduce end up with for offspring?

(see the answer key)

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