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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?
(a) Genes too similar to their parents.
(b) Weak and strong genes.
(c) A different bag of genes from their parents.
(d) Weak genes.

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

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

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

5. What did Zahavi, a scientist, theorize about reproduction mating?
(a) Female attractiveness signals the male's ability to survive.
(b) Male attractiveness signals the male's ability to survive.
(c) Male attractiveness hurts a male's ability to survive.
(d) Female attractiveness hurts a male's ability to survive.

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

7. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?
(a) Asexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.
(b) Same-sex reproduction must be understood to understand sexual reproduction.
(c) Sexual reproduction should not exist.
(d) Sexual reproduction provides rapid speed of evolution.

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

9. Who created the tangled bank theory?
(a) Leigh Van Valen.
(b) Graham Bell.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Richard Dawkins.

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

11. 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.

12. To understand human nature, what must we understand?
(a) The origin of emotions.
(b) The origin of attraction between humans.
(c) The origin of human nature.
(d) Differences in humans.

13. What is lekking?
(a) A courtship dance among mammals.
(b) A way for birds to mate.
(c) A sexual market where male birds congregate.
(d) A time of mating for birds.

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

15. What can a psychiatrist expect to find in all people?
(a) Extreme emotions and rational behaviors.
(b) Similar emotions and behaviors.
(c) No similarities in emotions.
(d) Psychopathic behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. In humans, what does evolution rely on?

2. Are individuals involved in evolution aware of the choices they are making?

3. What does being fast allow for a gazelle to do?

4. To women, attractiveness in a male signifies _____________.

5. What happens if a virus attacks a population of clones?

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