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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Watt Governor machine appear to do?
(a) Talk.
(b) Think.
(c) Cry.
(d) Scream.

2. What does Dawkins describe life forms as?
(a) Simple enlargements of self-copying molecules.
(b) Machines to protect competing self-copying molecules.
(c) Multiplications of self-copying molecules.
(d) Projections of self-copying molecules into a new dimension.

3. What happens to animals that tend to lose in fights?
(a) They tend to fight more aggressively in the future.
(b) They tend to change their fighting strategies.
(c) They tend to challenge less dominant rivals in the future.
(d) They tend to give up sooner in the future.

4. How does Darwin characterize the idea that the goal of evolution is for a species to survive, so individuals will take actions that are good for the species?
(a) As unscientific.
(b) As fundamental to evolution.
(c) As a reasonable alternative hypothesis.
(d) As probable.

5. What is a recessive gene?
(a) A gene that has no effect until two gene fragments come together from two sources.
(b) A gene that has no effect in alternate generations.
(c) A gene that has no effect until environmental triggers create an effect.
(d) A gene that has no effect except when two individuals with that gene are in close proximity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dawkins believe about the tension between survival of different generations?

2. In Dawkins' discussion, why do baby birds scream?

3. What did scientists do to test the genes that controlled bee behavior?

4. In sexual reproduction, what does the larger egg cell have that the smaller sperm cell does not?

5. From a gene's point of view, what does Dawkins say an organism is equally related to?

(see the answer key)

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