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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. How do males harm themselves?
(a) Uneasy violence and status games.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Uneasy violence.
(d) Status games.

2. From a biologist's point of view, sexual reproduction is more _________ than asexual reproduction.
(a) Expensive.
(b) Unnecessary
(c) Annoying.
(d) Risky.

3. How does Chapter 2 begin?
(a) With a fictional account of a Martian visitor.
(b) An explanation of sexual reproduction.
(c) Information about the author.
(d) With diagrams.

4. Pre- Darwinian thinkers such as _____________ believed that evolution was a process of individual adaptations that were later passed down to ancestors.
(a) Russel Wallace.
(b) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Richard Dawkins.

5. What does being fast allow for a gazelle to do?
(a) The gazelle gets caught.
(b) The fast gazelle survives and reproduces, thus spreading its genes.
(c) The gazelle is never caught and it throws off the balance of the environment.
(d) It is able to always kill its prey.

Short Answer Questions

1. If there are too many males, it will eventually be better to be a ____________.

2. What can a psychiatrist expect to find in all people?

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

4. Why is the Vicar of Bray theory flawed?

5. Instead of scientists concentrating on why humans are the way they are, they should concentrate on _________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the history of evolution a never ending arms race?

2. To what is the human genome often compared?

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

4. What is the lottery theory?

5. Who developed the Red Queen Theory?

6. What does sexual reproduction mostly consist of?

7. What secondary quality do men look for in women?

8. What is perplexing about sexual reproduction?

9. What is the tangled bank theory?

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

(see the answer keys)

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