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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to baby birds if the parent does not find enough food for the group?
(a) All the babies die.
(b) The parent will feed only a few babies, and the others will die.
(c) The babies will survive but be sickly and have later problems.
(d) The parent will give up its life to feed the baby birds.

2. In the example that Dawkins gives, what do pigs sometimes do to the runt of the litter?
(a) Kick it away.
(b) Allow the other piglets to attack it.
(c) Eat it.
(d) Refuse to feed it.

3. What is a "war of attrition" based on in ESS?
(a) The amount of will and effort it takes to achieve a goal.
(b) How many possible routes there are to a particular goal.
(c) How often a goal will be abandoned.
(d) How much time and energy a goal is worth.

4. What response does Dawkins give to the idea that birth control is wrong because it's unnatural?
(a) That feeding the poor is also unnatural.
(b) That human lifestyle is completely unnatural.
(c) That birth regulation is a survival instinct.
(d) That birth regulation is an evolutionary adaptation.

5. How does Dawkins postulate that animals judge relatedness?
(a) By resemblance.
(b) By statistics.
(c) By instinctual knowledge.
(d) By scent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example of the type of valued human behavior that perhaps influences people to believe in group selection does Dawkins give?

2. What does Dawkins demonstrate using the net benefit score?

3. How does Dawkins characterize the runt of a litter?

4. What does Dawkins say removes humanity from the cruel and harsh laws of nature?

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

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