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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. Where does Jamie Smith study sparrows?
(a) Patagonia.
(b) British Columbia.
(c) Michigan.
(d) England.

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

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

4. 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) Three millimeters.
(c) Two millimeters.
(d) One millimeter.

5. To which of the researchers' objects are finches always attracted?
(a) Fans.
(b) Boots.
(c) A bucket of water.
(d) The trash can.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the captain of Darwin's ship?

2. Who is "the greatest authority on plants of the Galapagos"?

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

4. As discussed in Chapter 4, which of the finches' traits did Peter Boag study for his thesis?

5. What organism did Darwin's colleague Joseph Hooker study?

(see the answer key)

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