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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What behavior does the author cite about how elephant seals relate to rivals?
(a) Elephant seals steal mates away from the strongest rival.
(b) Elephant seals group together to attack the strongest rival.
(c) Elephant seals wait for the strongest rival to die or become too old.
(d) Elephant seals kill increasingly difficult rivals until they are killed.

2. What happens to female mice as the population rises to unacceptable limits?
(a) Female mice ignore male mice's advances.
(b) Female mice destroy their young.
(c) Fewer female mice are born.
(d) Female mice become less fertile.

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

4. According to Dawkins, for whom does a bird regulate the number of eggs it lays?
(a) For the good of itself and its mate.
(b) For the good of its genetic offspring.
(c) For the good of itself.
(d) For the good of the species.

5. To what does Dawkins attribute changes to female mice as the population rises?
(a) Random variation within groups.
(b) Random variation in individuals.
(c) Natural selection of individuals.
(d) Group selection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to animals that tend to lose in fights?

2. What does Dawkins describe life forms as?

3. To what does Dawkins compare ESS conclusions about individual behaviors within a species?

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

5. What does longevity provide to an early molecule, according to Dawkins?

(see the answer key)

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