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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. What unusual seed did the Grants find on Genovesa after El Niño?
(a) Wild grape.
(b) Sumac.
(c) Poison apple.
(d) Buckeye.

2. As related at the end of Chapter 3, which person sustained an injury from the barnacles on Daphne Major?
(a) Peter Grant.
(b) Peter Boag.
(c) Lisle Gibbs.
(d) Ian Abbott.

3. Who gave the lecture "The Demonstrative Evidence of Evolution"?
(a) David Lack.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) William Paley.
(d) Thomas Henry Huxley.

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

5. From where does Martin Taylor collect his moth specimens?
(a) The Pacific Northwest.
(b) The Midwest.
(c) The East Coast.
(d) The Bible Belt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who draws a chart at the end of Chapter 14?

3. Who, when observing Darwin's finches in museums, noticed the many differences in the birds' beaks?

4. How long did it take flies to develop resistance to the "resistance-proof" pesticides introduced in 1967?

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

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