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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In most species, what do many females mostly prefer in males?
(a) A male that promises to stay around.
(b) The ability to keep her safe.
(c) External factors, like male attractiveness.
(d) Money.

2. What are out law genes?
(a) Genes that are weak.
(b) Genes which cannot be passed down.
(c) Genes that will definitely be passed down.
(d) Genes that act like viruses and hijack chromosones.

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

4. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?
(a) Sexual Reproduction.
(b) Same-sex Reproduction.
(c) Asexual and Sexual Reproduction.
(d) Asexual reproduction.

5. How does Chapter 2 begin?
(a) Information about the author.
(b) With diagrams.
(c) An explanation of sexual reproduction.
(d) With a fictional account of a Martian visitor.

6. What does sex do to the genome of humans and other organisms?
(a) Decreases randomness of the genome.
(b) Causes too much risk in the genes.
(c) Increases randomness of the genome.
(d) Makes stronger genes.

7. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?
(a) The Red Queen Theory.
(b) The Blue Book Theory.
(c) The King's Theory.
(d) The tangled bank and lottery theory have no competition.

8. What type of civilization do the New Guinea tribes have?
(a) Scavengers.
(b) Democratic governments.
(c) Hunter gatherers.
(d) Hunters.

9. What will happen to create more female babies in Chinese and Indian societies?
(a) More boys will be born, because it is what people want.
(b) There will be more births overall.
(c) There will be less births overall.
(d) Virgin births will happen to adjust and make more female babies.

10. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.
(a) Where humans live.
(b) A way to study humans without them knowing.
(c) How they got to be the way they are.
(d) Why humans are the way they are.

11. In which cultures are male babies especially prized?
(a) American.
(b) Indian.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Chinese and Indian.

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

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

14. What do the females of this same group prefer?
(a) Well-built mounds, instead of poorly constructed mounds.
(b) Intelligent males.
(c) Males that will take care of them.
(d) Males who are attractive.

15. Is attractiveness always the only criteria for mate selection?
(a) Yes, females don't like ugly people.
(b) Yes, females are shallow.
(c) No, females like important mates.
(d) No, only when selection is plentiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. When it is difficult or costly for female birds to choose males, females will choose ___________.

2. What is the tangled bank theory?

3. What are the interests of most males?

4. Ever since _____________ in the late 19th century, scientists have understood that all life forms are a product of biological evolution.

5. From a biologist's point of view, sexual reproduction is more _________ than asexual reproduction.

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