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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animals does the author mention as examples of animals that work hard to rescue or save others?
(a) Bears and squids.
(b) Zebras and sharks.
(c) Baboons and whales.
(d) Lions and dolphins.

2. What does Wynne-Edwards teach?
(a) That individuals strive for individual success within the group.
(b) That groups of animals evolved for the good of the group.
(c) That evolution is only partially responsible for behaviors.
(d) That group behaviors are evolved and individual behaviors are incidental.

3. According to Dawkins' description, what do insect colonies usually consist of?
(a) A communal group of offspring descended from many mothers.
(b) Small, interrelated groups of offspring descended from many mothers.
(c) A large number of offspring descended from a small group of mothers.
(d) A large number of offspring descended from the same mother.

4. Do gulls recognize their own eggs and chicks?
(a) Gulls recognize their chicks and eggs.
(b) Gulls recognize their eggs but not their chicks.
(c) Gulls recognize neither their chicks nor their eggs.
(d) Gulls recognize their chicks but not their eggs.

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

6. How closely related are two sister bees?
(a) Three quarters.
(b) One half.
(c) One quarter.
(d) One.

7. According to the relatedness calculations in the book, how much more closely related is a child to a sibling than a half-sibling?
(a) The child is twice as closely related to the sibling.
(b) The child is one an a half times as closely related to the sibling.
(c) The child is three times as closely related to the sibling.
(d) The child is four times as closely related to the sibling.

8. How does the author suggest that bird calls might help a bird that is trying to hide by freezing to camouflage itself?
(a) The call might allow the bird to focus and remain quiet for a longer period of time.
(b) The call might cause the rest of the flock to freeze and not attract attention.
(c) The call might cause the rest of the flock to fly and distract predators.
(d) The call might be hard to pinpoint and therefore distract predators.

9. What happens to cuckoo eggs that look dissimilar to the host eggs they replace?
(a) They are thrown out of the nest and don't survive.
(b) They are recognized but allowed to stay in the nest.
(c) They are raised by the cuckoos instead of surrogates.
(d) They aren't recognized by the surrogate parent birds.

10. What does Dawkins speculate might be a reason a female animal could be tricked into raising a child that is not her own?
(a) The animal might misinterpret how related it is to the child.
(b) The animal might gain practice for future offspring.
(c) The animal might make alliances for self-protection.
(d) The animal might identify specific genes it has in common with the child.

11. In Dawkins' game theory analysis of a colony of birds and ticks, what were grudger birds?
(a) Birds that can survive in symbiosis with ticks.
(b) Birds that refuse to have ticks taken off of their heads.
(c) Birds that refuse to take ticks off other birds.
(d) Birds that refuse to take ticks off birds that won't help others.

12. What does Dawkins describe some female birds demanding from males?
(a) They demand males feed them.
(b) They demand males walk or fly close behind them.
(c) They demand males fight off predators.
(d) They demand males fight off other birds.

13. What happens to female mice as the population rises to unacceptable limits?
(a) Female mice destroy their young.
(b) Fewer female mice are born.
(c) Female mice become less fertile.
(d) Female mice ignore male mice's advances.

14. What does Wynne-Edwards believe about territories that animals fight over?
(a) Individual territories provide survival for the species.
(b) Individual territories are illusions.
(c) Individual territories provide survival for the individual.
(d) Individual territories are symbolic.

15. In sexual reproduction, what does the larger egg cell have that the smaller sperm cell does not?
(a) The ability to protect itself from other cells.
(b) More food reserves for the future embryo.
(c) A complete set of DNA.
(d) The ability to move around to more beneficial environments.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the ant colonies studied by Trivers and Hare, what do the ants do with eggs stolen from other colonies?

2. What happens to baby birds if the parent does not find enough food for the group?

3. What does Dawkins say that Honeyguide chicks do?

4. According to Dawkins, is there a genetic reason to favor one child over others?

5. What does Trivers look at breeding as?

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