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

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) Volunteering for community service.
(b) Getting a job to beneift one's family.
(c) Asking people to go to war to protect their country.
(d) Giving to a charitable organization to prevent world hunger.

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

3. What is the most stable type of behavior in the computer simulations of ESS?
(a) Bully.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Retaliator.
(d) Dove.

4. What happens in inversion?
(a) A gene is inserted backwards on a strand of DNA.
(b) A nucleotide is inserted backwards in DNA.
(c) Chromosomes are inserted backwards in a cell nucleus.
(d) DNA is inserted backwards in a chromosome.

5. How does Dawkins argue for communication being selfish?
(a) By pointing out that communication always has a main communcator.
(b) By pointing out lying and misleading communications.
(c) By pointing out that communication is only understaken for specific, selfish ends.
(d) By pointing out that the ends of communiation benefit both parties.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What would happen to an early molecule that made many more copies of itself than other molecules made of themselves?

3. What happens to animals that tend to lose in fights?

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

5. In Dawkins' metaphor about DNA, how many books are on the bookshelf?

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