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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Are individuals involved in evolution aware of the choices they are making?
(a) Ten per cent of the time.
(b) Fifty per cent of the time.
(c) Always.
(d) Never.

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

3. Lower class individuals tend to have _________.
(a) Female babies.
(b) Less babies.
(c) More babies.
(d) Male babies.

4. Are sexually reproducing organisms able to compete with asexually reproducing organisms?
(a) No, never.
(b) Only when they are genetically engineered.
(c) Yes, always.
(d) Occasionally.

5. What is the only way to understand why evolution is the way it is?
(a) To negate human nature.
(b) Study creationists theories.
(c) To ignore its history.
(d) Study the twists and turns of the evolutionary story.

6. In humans, what does evolution rely on?
(a) Sexual Reproduction.
(b) Fission.
(c) Asexual reproduction.
(d) Sexual and asexual reproduction.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Of course, both males and females have a (an) ________ to deceive the other sex to promote their own attractiveness.
(a) Reason.
(b) Incentive.
(c) Purpose.
(d) Right.

13. How does Chapter 5 begin?
(a) With the story of a fisherman.
(b) With mating behavior of Australian brush turkeys.
(c) With an explanation of courtship.
(d) With observations about pine moles.

14. What is the bdelloid rotifer?
(a) An organism that lacks certain genes.
(b) A microscopic animal that can live in any kind of water.
(c) A type of animal that produces asexually.
(d) A genetically engineered organism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the male to female ratio?

2. What is the main focus of the novel?

3. What is the lottery theory?

4. What do genes seek through the actions of the bodies that contain them?

5. What does sex do to the genome of humans and other organisms?

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