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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. In what year did the Grants first go to the Galapagos?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1985.

2. What type of bird suffered on Genovesa during the rains of 1982-83?
(a) Bluebird.
(b) Finch.
(c) Booby.
(d) Mockingbird.

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

4. In Chapter 5, to which mythical figure does Weiner compare the finches?
(a) The Sirens.
(b) Sisyphus.
(c) Medusa.
(d) Icharus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Weiner compare to the "flaming sword at the gates of Eden"?

2. As related at the end of Chapter 3, which person sustained an injury from the barnacles on Daphne Major?

3. Which animal did one finch attack during the dry year?

4. What do Crossbills eat?

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

(see the answer key)

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