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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. Which plant has dominated Daphne Major since the flood?
(a) Passionflower.
(b) Cactus.
(c) Tribulus.
(d) Cacabus.

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

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

4. What does the Latin word "specere" mean?
(a) To be speckled.
(b) To see.
(c) To sing.
(d) To specify.

5. Who created the concept of the "darwin"?
(a) Peter Grant.
(b) J.B.S. Haldane.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Trevor Price.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which biologist thought of Darwin's finches as "not separate species at all, but 'hybrid swarms'"?

2. How many genera of plants did Darwin's friend find in a "small fallow field in Kent"?

3. What does the Difficilis on the Pinta eat?

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

5. Where did Rosemary spend her childhood?

(see the answer key)

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