CAT Question of the Day Stephen King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. When King was two years old, his father left the family under the pretense of "going to buy a pack of cigarettes," leaving his mother to raise King and his adopted older brother, David, by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The family moved to De Pere, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana and Stratford, Connecticut. When King was eleven years old, the family returned to Durham, Maine, where Ruth King cared for her parents until their deaths. She then became a caregiver in a local residential facility for the mentally challenged. As a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that after leaving home to play with the boy, King returned, speechless and seemingly in shock. Only later did the family learn of the friend's death. Some commentators have suggested that this event may have psychologically inspired some of King's darker works, but King himself has dismissed the idea. What can we gather about King from the above passage? | OPTIONS | | |  | 1) | King was a recluse because his father left him while he was a kid and his mother had to take care of him under great financial strain. | | | 2) | King had a few "darker" works – which meant that he was an artist and that he didn't always create sunny, happy things. | | | 3) | King's commentators believe that his past shaped his works, but King doesn't necessarily agree. | | | 4) | King's brain erased the memory of his friend's death because it was too traumatic for a child to bear. | | | 5) | King is a really famous writer who rose from rags to riches. |
Tip of the Day While calculating probability of events, multiple cases of a single event are represented by the sum of their probabilities whereas sub-events within a main event are represented by the product of their probabilities. Last year's Question of the day (16-Mar-11) Vampire bats are believed to be the only species of bats in the world to "adopt" another young bat if something happens to the bat's mother. Vampire bats also share a strong family bond with members of the colony, which is believed to be why they are the only bats to take up this adoption characteristic. Another unique adaptation of vampire bats is the sharing of food. A vampire bat can only survive about two days without a meal of blood, yet they cannot be guaranteed of finding food every night. This poses a problem, so when a bat fails to find food it will often "beg" to another bat for food. The "host" bat may regurgitate a small amount of blood to sustain the other member of the colony. All these characteristics have been noted by many naturalists as reciprocal altruism in nature.
Which of the following options could also be an example of reciprocal altruism?
| OPTIONS | | | | | 1) | Giraffes running away from lions in a group. | | | 2) | Bees making honey for the entire community. | | | 3) | A mother lion feeding her share of the prey to her cub. | | | 4) | A herd of deer feeding an injured fawn. | | | 5) | A cuckoo bird laying an egg in a sparrow's nest. |
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