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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What modern day society sometime practices polygamy?
(a) Extreme Mormonism.
(b) Protestantism.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Catholicism.

2. Why is this book called The Red Queen?
(a) The author thinks that the title is ironic.
(b) It is symbolic of higher level genetics.
(c) The author has always enjoyed the character from Alice in Wonderland.
(d) The landscape around the Queen moves as she moves. Evolutionary progress is relative to ones surroundings.

3. What type of historical incident may have been a more frequent phenomenon than is commonly thought?
(a) Polygamy in the Catholic Church.
(b) The conflict between Henry the VIII and the church over divorce.
(c) Illegitimate sons and daughters.
(d) Divorces throughout history.

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

5. Who created the tangled bank theory?
(a) Leigh Van Valen.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Graham Bell.
(d) Charles Darwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was polygamy stamped out?

2. What do males want in sexual partners?

3. Why do genes exist?

4. What does sex do to the genome of humans and other organisms?

5. Why do women need men?

(see the answer key)

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