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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens if a virus attacks a population of clones?
(a) The clone population will be wiped out.
(b) The clones attack one another in order to survive.
(c) The virus will kill only the weakest clones.
(d) The clone population will effectively kill the virus.

4. What will happen to create more female babies in Chinese and Indian societies?
(a) There will be more births overall.
(b) Virgin births will happen to adjust and make more female babies.
(c) More boys will be born, because it is what people want.
(d) There will be less births overall.

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

6. What genders are not always needed?
(a) Hermaphrodites.
(b) None.
(c) Females.
(d) Males.

7. What kind of study does evolution become?
(a) A slow process.
(b) Functions of bodies and organisims as gene vehicles.
(c) How organisms become better over generations.
(d) Competition between friends.

8. What is the male to female ratio?
(a) 1:3.
(b) 2:1.
(c) 1:1.
(d) 1:2.

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

10. What type of civilization do the New Guinea tribes have?
(a) Hunters.
(b) Hunter gatherers.
(c) Democratic governments.
(d) Scavengers.

11. What is the chief competitor to the tangled bank theory and lottery theory?
(a) The Blue Book Theory.
(b) The tangled bank and lottery theory have no competition.
(c) The King's Theory.
(d) The Red Queen Theory.

12. What are out law genes?
(a) Genes that are weak.
(b) Genes that will definitely be passed down.
(c) Genes which cannot be passed down.
(d) Genes that act like viruses and hijack chromosones.

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

14. What is the main focus of the novel?
(a) Parts of human nature are products of sexual selection.
(b) To understand the advances in same-sex reproduction.
(c) To compare sexual and asexual reproduction.
(d) To study asexual reproduction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In humans, what does evolution rely on?

2. Through sexual reproduction, what are offspring dealt?

3. Lower class individuals tend to have _________.

4. High status individuals tend to have __________.

5. Are sexually reproducing organisms able to compete with asexually reproducing organisms?

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