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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ant behavior does Dawkins give as an example of seemingly altruistic behavior?
(a) Throwing itself in front of predators.
(b) Bringing food back to other ants without eating.
(c) Running into a burning anthill to retrieve others' eggs.
(d) Hanging from a ceiling as a living food pack.

2. 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.

3. In the example that Dawkins gives, what do pigs sometimes do to the runt of the litter?
(a) Allow the other piglets to attack it.
(b) Refuse to feed it.
(c) Kick it away.
(d) Eat it.

4. What apparently selfish act of gulls does the author describe?
(a) Eating others' baby chicks.
(b) Stealing another gull's nest.
(c) "Ditching" the rest of the flock when a predator is spotted.
(d) Fighting for fish.

5. 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 duplicator.
(d) The chicken-and-egg molecule.

Short Answer Questions

1. Do gulls recognize their own eggs and chicks?

2. What does PI stand for?

3. How closely related are two sister bees?

4. In the behavior called stotting, where do Thompson gazelles jump?

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

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