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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What have mound building skills become?
(a) A survival technique.
(b) Unimportant.
(c) A reproductive skill.
(d) A coveted skill.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. When is maleness a reproductive advantage?
(a) In homosexual relationships.
(b) In monogamous relationships.
(c) In polygamous groups, such as monkeys.
(d) All the time, no matter what the relationship.

10. What is one way of good gene replication that the author mentions?
(a) Fission.
(b) Viruses.
(c) Asexual reproduction.
(d) Sex.

11. What is sexual selection?
(a) Irrational mating between humans.
(b) Random mating between humans.
(c) Selection based on the appeal of a potential mate.
(d) Selection based on the strength of a mate.

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

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

14. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.
(a) Russel Wallace.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

15. What is the main focus of the novel?
(a) To understand the advances in same-sex reproduction.
(b) To compare sexual and asexual reproduction.
(c) Parts of human nature are products of sexual selection.
(d) To study asexual reproduction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has solutions concerning genetics?

2. What is the male to female ratio?

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

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

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

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