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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 a goal that evolution has achieved.
(d) As exempt from the laws of natural selection.

2. What would molecules that grouped and built protective walls around themselves become?
(a) Inorganic materials.
(b) Animals.
(c) Single-celled organisms.
(d) Plants.

3. How does the author define intelligent life?
(a) As life that distinguishes itself from other life.
(b) As life that creates lasting communications.
(c) As life that tries to define itself.
(d) As life that asks where it came from.

4. What example of the type of valued human behavior that perhaps influences people to believe in group selection does Dawkins give?
(a) Asking people to go to war to protect their country.
(b) Volunteering for community service.
(c) Giving to a charitable organization to prevent world hunger.
(d) Getting a job to beneift one's family.

5. What molecules does Dawkins say existed in ancient seas and formed amino acids?
(a) Methane, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
(b) Carbon dioxide, nitrogen, sulfur, and amonia.
(c) Water, carbon dioxide, methane, and amonia.
(d) Water, nitrogen, hydrogen, and sulfur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would molecules that started to manufacture energy using the sun eventually become?

2. What apparently unselfish behavior of small birds does the author describe?

3. What happens in inversion?

4. Which cells in an organism contain the creature's DNA?

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

(see the answer key)

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