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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How closely related are two sister bees?
(a) One half.
(b) One quarter.
(c) One.
(d) Three quarters.

3. What is the name of the bee disease that Dawkins mentions in his example?
(a) Chalk brood.
(b) Foul brood.
(c) Sac brood.
(d) Stone brood.

4. What happens to animals that tend to lose in fights?
(a) They tend to fight more aggressively in the future.
(b) They tend to challenge less dominant rivals in the future.
(c) They tend to change their fighting strategies.
(d) They tend to give up sooner in the future.

5. 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 crush sick baby bees.
(b) Cause the bees to leave the hive where sick baby bees are.
(c) Cause the bees to throw sick baby bees out of the hive.
(d) Cause the bees to eat sick baby bees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would give longevity to early self-duplicating molecules, according to Dawkins?

2. What apparently selfish act of the penguin does the author describe?

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

4. What chance does a parent have of giving a particular gene to a child?

5. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, what do the instructions make?

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