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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What accounts for far more deaths than other predators or environmental occurrences?
(a) Killing ones own organisms.
(b) Accidents.
(c) Parasites and diseases.
(d) Death and destruction.

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

4. How do organisms compete during evolution?
(a) They compete with each other to pass down more genes to the next generation.
(b) They try to kill one another so that they might live.
(c) They kill their prey to ensure their survivors.
(d) They kill their prey and one another to be the last person standing.

5. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?
(a) A different bag of genes from their parents.
(b) Genes too similar to their parents.
(c) Weak and strong genes.
(d) Weak genes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1970, __________ argued that the individual is merely a container for genes.

2. Why does this organism present a mystery to the question of reproduction?

3. Sexual reproduction benefits _____________.

4. What do organisms that reproduce end up with for offspring?

5. What is the main focus of the novel?

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