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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only way to understand why evolution is the way it is?
(a) To ignore its history.
(b) Study creationists theories.
(c) Study the twists and turns of the evolutionary story.
(d) To negate human nature.

2. From a biologist's point of view, sexual reproduction is more _________ than asexual reproduction.
(a) Risky.
(b) Unnecessary
(c) Expensive.
(d) Annoying.

3. In the author's opinion, what is not the primary goal of an organism?
(a) Killing one another.
(b) Survival.
(c) Reproduction.
(d) Evolution.

4. Lower class individuals tend to have _________.
(a) Less babies.
(b) Male babies.
(c) Female babies.
(d) More babies.

5. How does Chapter 2 begin?
(a) Information about the author.
(b) With diagrams.
(c) An explanation of sexual reproduction.
(d) With a fictional account of a Martian visitor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?

2. What is the male to female ratio?

3. What happens if a virus attacks a population of clones?

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

5. What is the main focus of the novel?

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