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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is studying the Sticklebacks?
(a) Trevor Price.
(b) Chris Chaplin.
(c) Dolph Schluter.
(d) Peter Boag.

2. Weiner compares the finches' hunt for seeds to which human food?
(a) Potato chips.
(b) Pistachios.
(c) Twinkies.
(d) Walnuts.

3. In the dry year, how much bigger was the beak of a surviving finch than that of a dead finch?
(a) One millimeter.
(b) Three millimeters.
(c) Half a millimeter.
(d) Two millimeters.

4. In what year was the Charles Darwin Research Station founded?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1888.

5. For what university did the drosophilists discussed in Chapter 12 work?
(a) New York University.
(b) Rockefeller University.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) Harvard University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who devised the idea of "adaptive landscapes"?

2. Who named one finch species "Geospiza incerta," which, according to Weiner, means "ground finch, I guess"?

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

4. In what year did the Grants first go to the Galapagos?

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

(see the answer key)

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