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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Getting a job to beneift one's family.
(c) Giving to a charitable organization to prevent world hunger.
(d) Volunteering for community service.

2. What does Dawkins say readers can think of DNA as?
(a) A set of plans.
(b) A dictatorial ruler.
(c) A set of general guidelines.
(d) A computer controling the body.

3. According to Dawkins, are the self-copying molecules that Dawkins discusses "life" or not?
(a) Dawkins says that they are definitely not "life."
(b) Dawkins says that they are a kind of "life," but not as we know it today.
(c) Dawkins says it does not matter.
(d) Dawkins says that they are definitely "life."

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

5. What does Dawkins compare point mutation to?
(a) A misspoken word.
(b) A stray mark on a photocopy.
(c) A card getting shuffled into the wrong deck.
(d) A misprint on a book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Watt Governor machine appear to do?

2. Does the author believe that all people should act selfishly?

3. How does the author say that human beings think of their own species?

4. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, is the machine created by the instructions beneficial or dangerous?

5. When a cell divides to make a new cell with identical DNA, what is the process called?

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