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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 Medawar's study conclude?
(a) Older women are better at making choices between offspring.
(b) Older women are not as good at raising children.
(c) Older women are not good at distinguishing when a child costs too many resources.
(d) Older women are better with young children and worse with older children.

2. What would competition between early self-copying molecules be over?
(a) Water.
(b) Building-block molecules.
(c) Gaseous molecules.
(d) Space.

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

4. In the set of bees Dawkins mentions that deal with this disease, what does a second gene the bees have do?
(a) Cause the bees to crush sick baby bees.
(b) Cause the bees to eat sick baby bees.
(c) Cause the bees to leave the hive where sick baby bees are.
(d) Cause the bees to throw sick baby bees out of the hive.

5. In the natural world, which gender does Dawkins identify as more likely to select the other for breeding?
(a) Females tend to select males for breeding.
(b) Males tend to select females for breeding.
(c) Species tend to have both selective females and selective males, which are individuals that select another for breeding.
(d) Species are split about halfway on which gender selects the other for breeding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is difficult to explain about honeybees, according to Dawkins' theory?

2. What does the Watt Governor machine regulate?

3. What does Dawkins say that Honeyguide chicks do?

4. What behavior does the author cite about how elephant seals relate to rivals?

5. What did Spanish researchers see a baby swallow do?

(see the answer key)

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