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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who cannot compete with males?
(a) Females.
(b) Masculine females.
(c) Other males.
(d) Hermaphrodites.

2. What modern day society sometime practices polygamy?
(a) Extreme Mormonism.
(b) Protestantism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Jewish.

3. What is the tangled bank theory?
(a) It is more advantageous for humans to asexually produce.
(b) Different organisms in an environment saturated with similar organisms have a greater likelihood of survival.
(c) Sexual reproduction is the riskiest way for humans to reproduce.
(d) Sexual reproduction allows for a smaller number of very exceptional offspring.

4. Why is asexual reproduction a less risky option for an organism?
(a) There will be no one competing.
(b) All the clones will be healthy.
(c) There is no seeking out mates or the risk of being rejected.
(d) It is not less risky.

5. In Chapter 5, the animals are unsure of _____________.
(a) Passing desirable genes to offspring.
(b) Being able to find a suitable mate.
(c) What their mate thinks of them.
(d) The male knowing if the egg is his.

Short Answer Questions

1. In most species, what do many females mostly prefer in males?

2. What is the main focus of the novel?

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

4. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?

5. How do women prefer to live with men?

(see the answer key)

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