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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Dawkins' example, why might a child try to get extra food, to the detriment of brothers and sisters?
(a) The child is hungrier than its siblings.
(b) The child has no concern for its siblings' survival.
(c) The child is more related to itself than its siblings.
(d) The child has special needs that it must communicate to its parents.

2. What fundamental question does Dawkins want to consider?
(a) Why do people exist?
(b) Why does DNA exist?
(c) Why do molecules exist?
(d) Why do genes exist?

3. Why does Dawkins say kind or cooperative behavior arises?
(a) Because it promotes the good of the whole species.
(b) Because other factors besides natural selection are in play.
(c) Because other kind or cooperative behavior promotes it.
(d) Because it allows a gene to achieve a selfish goal.

4. To what does Dawkins attribute a male backing down from a powerful rival over territory?
(a) The desire not to over-compete with a rival's young.
(b) Self-preservation to more likely breed in the future.
(c) The abundance of other territories that might be claimed.
(d) The desire to preserve the species.

5. From a gene's point of view, what does Dawkins say an organism is equally related to?
(a) A cousin and a grandparent.
(b) A baby brother and a baby son.
(c) A baby brother and a parent's sibling.
(d) A father and a son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does AI stand for?

2. What almost always happens when copies of things are made, according to Dawkins?

3. What factors are part of Dawkins' net benefit score?

4. Why does the author use the word "apparently" to describe selfish or unselfish behavior?

5. To what does Dawkins attribute changes to female mice as the population rises?

(see the answer key)

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