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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the set of bees Dawkins mentions that deal with this disease, what does a second gene the bees have do?
(a) Cause the bees to leave the hive where sick baby bees are.
(b) Cause the bees to crush sick baby bees.
(c) Cause the bees to throw sick baby bees out of the hive.
(d) Cause the bees to eat sick baby bees.

2. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, what does the bookshelf represent?
(a) A strand of DNA.
(b) A cell nucleus.
(c) A single cell.
(d) A chromosome.

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

4. How common does Dawkins say doubt about evolution is?
(a) He says it's nonexistent.
(b) He says it's rare.
(c) He says it's in everyone.
(d) He says it's common.

5. What process does the existence of Dawkins' imagined early molecules closely resemble?
(a) Diffusion.
(b) Crystalization.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Hybridization.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the author use the word "apparently" to describe selfish or unselfish behavior?

2. What game, played by computers, does Dawkins use as an example of things that can happen automatically based on rules?

3. What would molecules that started to manufacture energy using the sun eventually become?

4. What would competition between early self-copying molecules be over?

5. How does the author say that human beings think of their own species?

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