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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. Which type of animal in the Galapagos has one alpha male that mates with many females?
(a) Iguana.
(b) Sea lion.
(c) Tortoise.
(d) Booby.

2. Where did John Endler build his experimental ponds?
(a) Yale University.
(b) University of Manitoba.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) Princeton University.

3. Which of the following is not a predator mentioned in Chapter 6?
(a) Rivulus hartii.
(b) Cichlid.
(c) Piranha.
(d) Prawn.

4. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?
(a) Fruit flies.
(b) Fruit bats.
(c) Manta rays.
(d) Dragonflies.

5. Who was the first person who could recognize all the finches on Daphne Major?
(a) Ian Abbott.
(b) Rosemary Grant.
(c) Trevor Price.
(d) Nicola Grant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what state did Benjamin Walsh build his homestead?

3. Who wrote the book Natural Selection in the Wild?

4. In the first paragraph of Chapter 11, Darwin is discussing the hybridization of which animal?

5. As witnessed by Hermon Carey Bumpus, which birds died en masse after a blizzard?

(see the answer key)

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