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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What apparently selfish act of the penguin does the author describe?
(a) Stealing food from a baby penguin's mouth.
(b) Shoving each other to see who will fall off a cliff.
(c) Stealing other penguins' eggs.
(d) Hiding behind other penguins when a predator is spotted.

2. What does Dawkins postulate maintains sexual reproduction as a feature?
(a) The need for genetic variation.
(b) The desireability of genetic mutations.
(c) The sexual reproduction gene trying to copy itself.
(d) The impossibility of asexual reproduction.

3. What does AI stand for?
(a) Antecedent Integrity.
(b) Authentic Intelligence.
(c) Altruistic Investment.
(d) Anomalous Involvement.

4. In Dawkins' description, how does a retaliator behave?
(a) A retaliator appears to be a dove but acts like a hawk.
(b) A retaliator appears to be a hawk but acts like a dove.
(c) A retaliator mimics the behavior of the creature it encounters.
(d) A retaliator waits to see what will happen and then reacts through a code of rules.

5. How does the author say that human beings think of their own species?
(a) As more imporant than other species.
(b) As able to rise above animal drives.
(c) As exempt from the laws of natural selection.
(d) As a goal that evolution has achieved.

Short Answer Questions

1. How common does Dawkins say doubt about evolution is?

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

3. What does Wynne-Edwards suggest that animals do to communicate overpopulation?

4. What does Wynne-Edwards teach?

5. What shape does the author say water molecules in space make?

(see the answer key)

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