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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Weiner compares the Cactus finch to whom in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Plains Indians.
(b) The Pilgrims.
(c) The faculty of the University of Michigan.
(d) The Pittsburgh Penguins.

2. How many species of finch are there in Hawaii?
(a) 32.
(b) 60.
(c) 113.
(d) 40.

3. Whom did Darwin commission to breed unusual combinations of pigeons?
(a) John Sewall.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Arthur Conan Doyle.
(d) Sir John Sebright.

4. According to Weiner, the woodpecker's beak is similar to what tool?
(a) Chisel.
(b) Pickaxe.
(c) Awl.
(d) Shovel.

5. Whose A Short History of Biology "killed Darwin with kindness," according to Weiner?
(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley's.
(b) Peter Grant's.
(c) Singer's.
(d) David Lack's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what book does Darwin discuss "sexual selection"?

2. What does an old woman in Puerto Ayora eat to avenge herself against the finches?

3. Where did Peter Grant pursue his undergraduate degree?

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

5. What is different from farm to farm in the Mississippi Delta?

(see the answer key)

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