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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Are individuals involved in evolution aware of the choices they are making?
(a) Fifty per cent of the time.
(b) Never.
(c) Ten per cent of the time.
(d) Always.

2. Why is this book called The Red Queen?
(a) The author has always enjoyed the character from Alice in Wonderland.
(b) The author thinks that the title is ironic.
(c) The landscape around the Queen moves as she moves. Evolutionary progress is relative to ones surroundings.
(d) It is symbolic of higher level genetics.

3. 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.

4. Who developed the Red Queen theory?
(a) Graham Bell.
(b) Leigh Van Valen.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Richard Dawkins.

5. How do males harm themselves?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Uneasy violence and status games.
(c) Status games.
(d) Uneasy violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Vicar of Bray theory flawed?

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

3. In the author's opinion, what is not the primary goal of an organism?

4. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?

5. Is attractiveness always the only criteria for mate selection?

(see the answer key)

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