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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would molecules that started to manufacture energy using the sun eventually become?
(a) Single-celled organisms.
(b) Plants.
(c) Animals.
(d) Inorganic materials.

2. Do one-celled animals seem to have purpose and intention, according to the author?
(a) No, they seem to behave without purpose.
(b) No, except under unusual circumstances.
(c) Yes, they must have some sort of mindful intention.
(d) Yes, but they only appear to be purposeful.

3. When a cell divides to make a new cell with identical DNA, what is the process called?
(a) Plasmosis.
(b) Alleles.
(c) Meiosis.
(d) Mitosis.

4. What would competition between early self-copying molecules be over?
(a) Gaseous molecules.
(b) Building-block molecules.
(c) Water.
(d) Space.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Watt Governor machine regulate?

2. What does Dawkins postulate maintains sexual reproduction as a feature?

3. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, what does the bookshelf represent?

4. In early reproducing molecules, what is the measure of "success"?

5. What type of animal brains does Dawkins say are most successful?

(see the answer key)

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