The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Matt Ridley
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Matt Ridley
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although it becomes clear that sex is necessary to avoid parasites, what question remains?
(a) Whether or not sex is the best way to reproduce.
(b) How sex works.
(c) Why sex works the way it does.
(d) Why people enjoy sex.

2. From this, what seems clear?
(a) Men and women must have different minds.
(b) The minds of women and men are unequal.
(c) Men and women have the same minds.
(d) Men and women should not think they have equal minds.

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

4. Thinking that male and female brains are different is often thought to be_______.
(a) Misguided.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Discriminatory.
(d) Hateful.

5. Why does the male pine mole visit many different tunnels?
(a) To increase the chance of survival.
(b) To escape the females.
(c) To eat all of the stored food.
(d) To see his many wives.

Short Answer Questions

1. To women, attractiveness in a male signifies _____________.

2. What causes a man's brain to change in the womb?

3. What is the bdelloid rotifer?

4. What did Zahavi, a scientist, theorize about reproduction mating?

5. If a male misses the change of his brain in the womb, what happens to him?

(see the answer key)

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