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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shape is the location where guillemots lay their eggs?
(a) Hilly.
(b) Flat.
(c) Rough and grassy.
(d) Jagged.

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

3. What does PI stand for?
(a) Parental Intelligence.
(b) Parental Investment.
(c) Parental Involvement.
(d) Parental Integrity.

4. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, what do the instructions make?
(a) A time travel machine.
(b) An energy generator.
(c) A space ship.
(d) A computer.

5. Why does Dawkins say kind or cooperative behavior arises?
(a) Because other kind or cooperative behavior promotes it.
(b) Because it allows a gene to achieve a selfish goal.
(c) Because other factors besides natural selection are in play.
(d) Because it promotes the good of the whole species.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dawkins say readers can think of DNA as?

2. What apparently unselfish act of a bee does the author describe?

3. In Dawkins' game theory analysis of a colony of birds and ticks, what were grudger birds?

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

5. What does Dawkins call the molecule that he imagines as the first molecule to make copies of itself?

(see the answer key)

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