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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Sexual reproduction benefits _____________.
(a) One member of the same organism versus another member of that same organisim.
(b) Only humans, not other organisms.
(c) No one.
(d) Everyone.

3. What is the tangled bank theory?
(a) Sexual reproduction is the riskiest way for humans to reproduce.
(b) Sexual reproduction allows for a smaller number of very exceptional offspring.
(c) It is more advantageous for humans to asexually produce.
(d) Different organisms in an environment saturated with similar organisms have a greater likelihood of survival.

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

5. To women, attractiveness in a male signifies _____________.
(a) Excessive amounts of sperm.
(b) Good genes.
(c) The ability to support her and future children.
(d) Infidelity in the relationship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only way to understand why evolution is the way it is?

2. What was the 16th century cleric known for besides his scientific theories?

3. What do scientists want to discover about genetic mixing?

4. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.

5. What have mound building skills become?

Short Essay Questions

1. When is it even more important for a female to find a good mate?

2. Why do genes exist in the first place?

3. What is perplexing about sexual reproduction?

4. How does the book begin and why is it important?

5. What would lead a woman to pick a man based on looks?

6. What is the tangled bank theory?

7. After the Vicar of Bray theory, what did scientists try to prove?

8. What does sexual reproduction mostly consist of?

9. To what is the human genome often compared?

10. Why is there a ratio of 1:1 in males and females?

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