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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "good genes" theory?
(a) More attractive males will produce beautiful children.
(b) Beautiful children are evil.
(c) More attractive people make smart people.
(d) Smart people are attracted to other smart people.

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

3. What happens if a virus attacks a population of clones?
(a) The clone population will effectively kill the virus.
(b) The clones attack one another in order to survive.
(c) The virus will kill only the weakest clones.
(d) The clone population will be wiped out.

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

5. To explain sex, scientists need to find ________________.
(a) Why people are attracted to one another.
(b) The reason for asexual reproduction.
(c) A reason for an individual organism to prefer sexual over asexual reproduction.
(d) A new way for humans to mate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the interests of most males?

2. Sexual reproduction benefits _____________.

3. What is the "sexy-sons" theory?

4. What does the story in Chapter 5 prove for the author?

5. In humans, what does evolution rely on?

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