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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Latin word "specere" mean?
(a) To sing.
(b) To see.
(c) To be speckled.
(d) To specify.

2. Who is quoted in the opening of Chapter 6?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Joseph Hooker.
(c) Thomas Henry Huxley.
(d) John Donne.

3. In Chapter 6, what does Weiner compare to a Petri dish?
(a) Earth.
(b) Genovesa.
(c) New York City.
(d) Daphne Major.

4. In the first paragraph of Chapter 11, Darwin is discussing the hybridization of which animal?
(a) Pigeon.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Fox.
(d) Hawk.

5. What is the name of the village on Santa Cruz?
(a) Puerto Vallarta.
(b) Puerto Ayora.
(c) Rapa Nui.
(d) Santiago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color "indicates age and experience" in the male finches' feathers?

2. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?

3. Which type of animal in the Galapagos has one alpha male that mates with many females?

4. What animal does Scott Carroll study?

5. As described at the end of Chapter 6, for what were Trevor Price and Lisle Gibbs waiting?

(see the answer key)

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