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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does ESS stand for?
(a) Evolutionarily Successful Strategy.
(b) Engineered Survival Strategy.
(c) Evolutionary Stable Strategy.
(d) Environmental Secure Strategy.

2. To what does Dawkins attribute a male backing down from a powerful rival over territory?
(a) The desire not to over-compete with a rival's young.
(b) The desire to preserve the species.
(c) The abundance of other territories that might be claimed.
(d) Self-preservation to more likely breed in the future.

3. What does Dawkins describe as "intruder retreat" behavior?
(a) Strangers tend to consider each other intruders and retreat.
(b) Entities tend to retreat from aggressive intruders.
(c) Groups tend to retreat when an intruder is in the area.
(d) The entity intruding into an unknown situation tends to retreat.

4. Why does Dawkins say individuals within a species interact more with each other than with other species?
(a) Because they need each other to survive.
(b) Because they inhabit the same habitat.
(c) Because they compete for the same resources using the same tools.
(d) Because they are more easily recognizable to each other since they are similar.

5. What does Wynne-Edwards say happens when other animals communicate to the species that there is overpopulation?
(a) The animals attack others' young.
(b) The animals claim larger territories.
(c) The animals have fewer young.
(d) The animals store extra food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the bee disease that Dawkins mentions in his example?

2. What does an animal do when it fails to claim a territory?

3. What type of math does the author discuss that's used to model how real animals behave in the world?

4. In Dawkins' discussion, what does he consider alleles to be, relative to genes?

5. What kind of animals does the intruder retreat experiment by Niko Tinbergen use?

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