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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of whom does Peter Grant keep newspaper photos on his office door?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Nicola Grant.
(c) A bagpipe player.
(d) Rosemary.

2. When did the ancestors of humans start to walk?
(a) 40 million years ago.
(b) 200,000 years ago.
(c) 8000 years ago.
(d) 6-7 million years ago.

3. Which biologist thought of Darwin's finches as "not separate species at all, but 'hybrid swarms'"?
(a) Peter Boag.
(b) Jamie Smith.
(c) David Lack.
(d) Percy R. Lowe.

4. What was the name of the boat by which the Grants traveled from island to island, as mentioned in Chapter 8?
(a) The Enforcer.
(b) The Sea Lion.
(c) The Grossbeak.
(d) The Flamingo.

5. How many E. coli bacteria can grow from one bacterium within eight hours?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 20 million.
(d) 5000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times did Number 3425 breed in 1983?

2. What plant did the botanist Edgar Anderson study in the Ozarks?

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

4. What is the painting called that Henry Stacy Marks created?

5. Approximately how many species of birds are there in the world?

(see the answer key)

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