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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "sexy-sons" theory?
(a) Sons will be the most attractive if the two parents are very attractive.
(b) Sons are always sexier than daughters.
(c) Males will always choose the most attractive woman.
(d) Females will always choose the most attractive man.

2. What gender contains all cytoplasmic genes?
(a) Hermaphrodites.
(b) Males.
(c) Males and Females.
(d) Females.

3. What are the interests of most males?
(a) Taking care of their mate and offspring.
(b) Impregnating as many women as possible.
(c) Being a good father.
(d) Being faithful to one female.

4. What is the continuous arms race that occurs between organisms?
(a) People will try to kill one another so that their genes may carry on.
(b) No one can catch up.
(c) Once an advantage is gained, the loser will adapt to negate the advantage.
(d) World War II.

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

6. In 1970, __________ argued that the individual is merely a container for genes.
(a) Russel Wallace.
(b) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Richard Dawkins.

7. How do organisms compete during evolution?
(a) They try to kill one another so that they might live.
(b) They kill their prey to ensure their survivors.
(c) They compete with each other to pass down more genes to the next generation.
(d) They kill their prey and one another to be the last person standing.

8. What is the primary part in sexual reproduction?
(a) Outcrossing genes.
(b) Combining all genes.
(c) Combining and outcrossing genes.
(d) Killing genes that are not yours.

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

10. What happens if a virus attacks a population of clones?
(a) The clone population will effectively kill the virus.
(b) The clones attack one another in order to survive.
(c) The clone population will be wiped out.
(d) The virus will kill only the weakest clones.

11. What was the 16th century cleric known for besides his scientific theories?
(a) Being a survivor of Protestant ridicule.
(b) His sermons.
(c) Killing Catholics.
(d) Switching between Catholic and Protestant religions.

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

13. How do species outwit killer viruses?
(a) Asexual reproduction.
(b) Sexual reproduction.
(c) With their brains.
(d) Splitting cells.

14. Organisms that reproduce sexually will pass immunity or defenses down to whom?
(a) Their spouses.
(b) No one.
(c) Their friends.
(d) Their descendants.

15. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the author say will be explored in the next chapter?
(a) How babies are made.
(b) Why there are men and women.
(c) Why babies are hard to keep alive.
(d) More ways that evolution can work against organisims.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the story in Chapter 5 prove for the author?

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

3. Although it becomes clear that sex is necessary to avoid parasites, what question remains?

4. What is the male to female ratio?

5. High status individuals tend to have __________.

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