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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What example of the type of valued human behavior that perhaps influences people to believe in group selection does Dawkins give?
(a) Volunteering for community service.
(b) Giving to a charitable organization to prevent world hunger.
(c) Asking people to go to war to protect their country.
(d) Getting a job to beneift one's family.

2. In the ant colonies studied by Trivers and Hare, what do the ants do with eggs stolen from other colonies?
(a) Destroy the eggs.
(b) Eat the eggs.
(c) Use the ants as slaves.
(d) Use the ants as mates.

3. Does the author believe that all people should act selfishly?
(a) No, and he believes people will not naturally act selfishly.
(b) Yes, he believes selfish behavior has positive results.
(c) No, he believes people should try to overcome selfish natural tendancies.
(d) Yes, he believes that selfish behavior is natural and therefore good, despite negative results.

4. 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 throw sick baby bees out of the hive.
(c) Cause the bees to eat sick baby bees.
(d) Cause the bees to crush sick baby bees.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a cell creates a sperm cell or egg cell with reduced DNA, what is the process called?

2. What is the most stable type of behavior in the computer simulations of ESS?

3. If two genes normally cooperate, what happens when one gene is missing?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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