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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. In what book does Darwin discuss "sexual selection"?
(a) Journals and Remarks.
(b) The Origin of Species.
(c) The Descent of Man.
(d) Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle.

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

3. Whom did Darwin commission to breed unusual combinations of pigeons?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Sir John Sebright.
(c) John Sewall.
(d) Arthur Conan Doyle.

4. How many mating songs does each species of finch have?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 1.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a predator mentioned in Chapter 6?

2. In chapter 16, Weiner compares evolutionists to characters in which classic story?

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

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

5. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?

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