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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 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.

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

3. How does the Red Queen begin?
(a) With a discussion of human nature.
(b) With a discussion about the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland.
(c) With a story of Martians.
(d) With a discussion of asexual organisms.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of course, both males and females have a (an) ________ to deceive the other sex to promote their own attractiveness.

2. In most species, what do many females mostly prefer in males?

3. What do males want in sexual partners?

4. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.

5. What accounts for far more deaths than other predators or environmental occurrences?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would a pre-Darwin think explain why giraffes have long necks?

2. To what is the human genome often compared?

3. What is the tangled bank theory?

4. From a biologist's point of view, why is sexual reproduction not as successful as asexual?

5. Why are out law genes interesting?

6. Explain the story of the fisherman.

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

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

9. Why do males want to be with many females?

10. Why is the book named after the Red Queen?

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