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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What chance does a parent have of giving a particular gene to a child?
(a) A forty percent chance.
(b) A sixty percent chance.
(c) A thirty percent chance.
(d) A fifty percent chance.

2. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, how many books are on the bookshelf?
(a) Thirty-two.
(b) Twenty-three.
(c) Forty-six.
(d) Fifty-four.

3. What does Dawkins demonstrate using the net benefit score?
(a) That it is to an organism's genes' benefit to alert family members of a predator.
(b) That it is to an organism's genes' benefit to alert family members to natural hazards.
(c) That it is to an organism's genes' benefit to alert family members to poisonous food sources.
(d) That it is to an organism's genes' benefit to show relatives that food is available.

4. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, what represents a gene?
(a) A word in a book.
(b) A chapter in a book.
(c) A line on a page in a book.
(d) A page in a book.

5. According to the relatedness calculations in the book, how much more closely related is a child to a sibling than a half-sibling?
(a) The child is twice as closely related to the sibling.
(b) The child is one an a half times as closely related to the sibling.
(c) The child is three times as closely related to the sibling.
(d) The child is four times as closely related to the sibling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dawkins say readers can think of DNA as?

2. Do gulls recognize their own eggs and chicks?

3. What does Dawkins mean by a "selfish gene?"

4. What is a recessive gene?

5. What does Dawkins speculate might be a reason a female animal could be tricked into raising a child that is not her own?

(see the answer key)

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