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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 furry exterior.
(b) Its hardness.
(c) Its thorns.
(d) Its latex substance.

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

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

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

5. Who wrote the book Natural Selection in the Wild?
(a) David Lack.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) John Endler.
(d) Peter Grant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which animal did the evolutionist David Lack not consider when formulating his ideas, as mentioned in Chapter 4?

3. As Chapter 5 ends, Weiner mentions which food that Darwin ate in the Galapagos?

4. Which year was the dry year that is discussed in Chapter 5?

5. What is the name of the village on Santa Cruz?

(see the answer key)

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