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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 Dawkins call the molecule that he imagines as the first molecule to make copies of itself?
(a) The replicator.
(b) The duplicator.
(c) The chicken-and-egg molecule.
(d) The proto-RNA.

2. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, is the machine created by the instructions beneficial or dangerous?
(a) It is dangerous.
(b) It is both beneficial and dangerous, at different times.
(c) It is beneficial.
(d) It is neither dangerous nor beneficial.

3. What does the Watt Governor machine regulate?
(a) How fast its arms spin.
(b) How high it rises.
(c) How heavy it becomes.
(d) How hot it becomes.

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

5. What does Dawkins say readers can think of DNA as?
(a) A set of general guidelines.
(b) A computer controling the body.
(c) A set of plans.
(d) A dictatorial ruler.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, who sends instructions through time?

2. What almost always happens when copies of things are made, according to Dawkins?

3. In the set of bees Dawkins mentions that deal with this disease, what does a second gene the bees have do?

4. What response does Dawkins give to the idea that birth control is wrong because it's unnatural?

5. What does Dawkins describe life forms as?

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