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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What normally causes the finches not to eat Chamaesyce?
(a) Its hardness.
(b) Its thorns.
(c) Its furry exterior.
(d) Its latex substance.

2. What organism did Darwin's colleague Joseph Hooker study?
(a) Seals.
(b) Bracket fungi.
(c) Sea cucumbers.
(d) Ferns.

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

4. What animal does Weiner describe as having "the body plan of a volcano"?
(a) Mussel.
(b) Barnacle.
(c) Crow.
(d) Tortoise.

5. Where did Peter Grant pursue his undergraduate degree?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) UCLA.
(c) New York University.
(d) Cambridge University.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which famous writer went to Christ's College before Darwin?

4. As mentioned in Chapter 5, which book did Laurene Ratcliffe read while waiting for rain on Daphne Major?

5. How much rain fell on the day the severe drought ended, as mentioned in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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