2. What is sexual selection?
(a) Selection based on the strength of a mate.
(b) Selection based on the appeal of a potential mate.
(c) Random mating between humans.
(d) Irrational mating between humans.

3. If there are too many males, it will eventually be better to be a ____________.
(a) Female.
(b) Male.
(c) Hermaphrodite.
(d) Female or male.

4. What have mound building skills become?
(a) A survival technique.
(b) A coveted skill.
(c) A reproductive skill.
(d) Unimportant.

5. What is the solution of the individually rational genes?
(a) Gender.
(b) Celibacy.
(c) Asexuality.
(d) Polygamy.

6. 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.

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

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

9. Sexual reproduction benefits _____________.
(a) Only humans, not other organisms.
(b) One member of the same organism versus another member of that same organisim.
(c) Everyone.
(d) No one.

10. Sexual reproduction is ___________ to keep the parasites and diseases off guard by creating new variations through each generation.
(a) Not an easy way.
(b) Not able.
(c) An inefficient means.
(d) An attempt.

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

12. How does the Red Queen begin?
(a) With a story of Martians.
(b) With a discussion of asexual organisms.
(c) With a discussion of human nature.
(d) With a discussion about the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland.

13. What do males want in sexual partners?
(a) An attractive female.
(b) A spontaneous female.
(c) A good mother.
(d) A very young female.

14. Although it becomes clear that sex is necessary to avoid parasites, what question remains?
(a) Whether or not sex is the best way to reproduce.
(b) Why sex works the way it does.
(c) Why people enjoy sex.
(d) How sex works.

15. What are transposons?
(a) Diseases.
(b) Viruses.
(c) Out law genes.
(d) Weaker genes.