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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Chapter 5 begin?
(a) With observations about pine moles.
(b) With mating behavior of Australian brush turkeys.
(c) With the story of a fisherman.
(d) With an explanation of courtship.

2. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?
(a) The organism gave up sexual reproduction.
(b) It is extinct and cannot be studied.
(c) It kills other organisms that participate in it.
(d) The organism decided to self replicate.

3. What kind of study does evolution become?
(a) A slow process.
(b) Functions of bodies and organisims as gene vehicles.
(c) Competition between friends.
(d) How organisms become better over generations.

4. What is in the true interest of a female in reproduction?
(a) Infidelity.
(b) Polygamy.
(c) Monogamy.
(d) Altruism.

5. Male human beings expect to have their _______ compete with the ________ of other males.
(a) Love.
(b) Attractiveness.
(c) Sperm.
(d) Wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church created many rules to prevent __________.

2. Of course, both males and females have a (an) ________ to deceive the other sex to promote their own attractiveness.

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

4. What does sex do to the genome of humans and other organisms?

5. What, in the author's opinion, supports his assertions concerning a female's desires for reproduction?

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