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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the lottery theory?
(a) Sexual reproduction allows for a smaller number of very exceptional offspring.
(b) Organisms in densely populated areas survive better.
(c) It is more advantageous for humans to asexually reproduce.
(d) Sexual reproduction is the riskiest way for humans to reproduce.

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

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

4. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?
(a) It is extinct and cannot be studied.
(b) It kills other organisms that participate in it.
(c) The organism gave up sexual reproduction.
(d) The organism decided to self replicate.

5. What do organisms that reproduce end up with for offspring?
(a) Smart offspring.
(b) Non functional offspring.
(c) Completely different offspring.
(d) Clones.

6. The gender ratio is ___________ as an evolutionary pressure in humans.
(a) Strong.
(b) Harmful.
(c) Undeniable.
(d) Weak.

7. 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) Where humans live.
(c) How they got to be the way they are.
(d) A way to study humans without them knowing.

8. What genders are not always needed?
(a) None.
(b) Males.
(c) Females.
(d) Hermaphrodites.

9. In the author's opinion, what is not the primary goal of an organism?
(a) Reproduction.
(b) Survival.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Killing one another.

10. What is the male to female ratio?
(a) 2:1.
(b) 1:3.
(c) 1:1.
(d) 1:2.

11. Males are interested in increasing the _________ of sexual partners whereas women are interested in increasing the ________ of sexual partners.
(a) Quality, number.
(b) Number, quality.
(c) Percentage, number.
(d) Number, percentage.

12. What is the primary purpose of sexual reproduction that is very beneficial for all offspring?
(a) Slowness of evolution.
(b) Speed of evolution.
(c) Making many children.
(d) Meeting a soul mate.

13. Why is the Vicar of Bray theory flawed?
(a) It does not take sexual reproduction into account.
(b) It sees evolution as the goal of an organisim.
(c) It has been proven wrong over the centuries.
(d) It was made up by someone who is not a scientist.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chapter 2 begin?

2. What is the Vicar of Bray hypothesis?

3. According to the author and other research, who should have a better evolutionary outcome?

4. Who has solutions concerning genetics?

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

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