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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dawkins describe as "intruder retreat" behavior?
(a) The entity intruding into an unknown situation tends to retreat.
(b) Strangers tend to consider each other intruders and retreat.
(c) Groups tend to retreat when an intruder is in the area.
(d) Entities tend to retreat from aggressive intruders.

2. What does Dawkins say that Honeyguide chicks do?
(a) Scream less loud to not attract too much attention to themselves as intruders.
(b) Steal food from other chicks in the nest.
(c) Blackmail parents into getting more food by screaming loud enough to attract predators.
(d) Kill other chicks in the nest.

3. What kind of animals does the intruder retreat experiment by Niko Tinbergen use?
(a) Fish.
(b) Birds.
(c) Rats.
(d) Worms.

4. What behavior does the author cite about how elephant seals relate to rivals?
(a) Elephant seals wait for the strongest rival to die or become too old.
(b) Elephant seals kill increasingly difficult rivals until they are killed.
(c) Elephant seals group together to attack the strongest rival.
(d) Elephant seals steal mates away from the strongest rival.

5. 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) Hanging from a ceiling as a living food pack.
(d) Running into a burning anthill to retrieve others' eggs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dawkins give as his example of the individual benefit of pack behavior in hyenas?

2. What reason does Dawkins give that animal populations are about 50-50 male and female?

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

4. What animals does the author mention as examples of animals that work hard to rescue or save others?

5. In Dawkins' discussion, why don't baby birds continue to scream louder and louder?

(see the answer key)

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