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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 Dawkins postulate maintains sexual reproduction as a feature?
(a) The need for genetic variation.
(b) The impossibility of asexual reproduction.
(c) The sexual reproduction gene trying to copy itself.
(d) The desireability of genetic mutations.

2. What did scientists do to test the genes that controlled bee behavior?
(a) Breed bees without either gene.
(b) Breed bees with duplicates of both genes.
(c) Breed bees with duplicates of one of the genes.
(d) Breed bees with one of the genes only.

3. What four categories does Dawkins have in his game theory analysis of male and female sexual and childrearing behaviors?
(a) Faithful females, faithless females, faithful males, and faithless males.
(b) Coy females, philandering females, demanding males, and unreliable males.
(c) Coy females, fast females, faithful males, and philandering males.
(d) Accepting females, rejecting females, cooperative males, and uncooperative males.

4. What does Trivers look at breeding as?
(a) A careful calculation based on resources.
(b) A race with time.
(c) A goal of existence.
(d) A war between the sexes.

5. What does Dawkins point out about antelopes' herd behavior?
(a) The herd behavior gives indidivuals a better chance of survival.
(b) The herd behavior is not an adaptation.
(c) The herd behavior is fot the good of the species.
(d) The herd behavior sacrifices an individual for the species survival.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to female mice as the population rises to unacceptable limits?

2. In the science fiction story Dawkins cites, what do the instructions make?

3. In the natural world, which gender does Dawkins identify as more likely to select the other for breeding?

4. How does Dawkins characterize the natural world in his discussion of selfishness?

5. What does Dawkins believe about human population growth?

(see the answer key)

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