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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Crossbills eat?
(a) Berries.
(b) Acorns.
(c) Earthworms.
(d) The seeds in pinecones.

2. Where did Rosemary spend her childhood?
(a) Paris.
(b) Canada.
(c) The Lake District.
(d) London.

3. To which of the researchers' objects are finches always attracted?
(a) Fans.
(b) The trash can.
(c) Boots.
(d) A bucket of water.

4. How many sparrows survived the first population crash that Jamie Smith studied?
(a) 8.
(b) 56.
(c) 14.
(d) 102.

5. Which animal did the evolutionist David Lack not consider when formulating his ideas, as mentioned in Chapter 4?
(a) Snails.
(b) Paramecia.
(c) Barnacles.
(d) Finches.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many populations of finches did the Grants study during their first year in the Galapagos?

2. Which book is quoted at the beginning of Chapter 10?

3. How many genera of plants did Darwin's friend find in a "small fallow field in Kent"?

4. Weiner compares the Cactus finch to whom in the beginning of Chapter 2?

5. Who analyzed the finch data from the 1970s using partial regression analysis?

(see the answer key)

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