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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much rain has fallen on the island in the past forty-four months?
(a) 500 inches.
(b) 1/5 of an inch.
(c) 50 inches.
(d) 5 inches.

2. With what does Rosemary bait the finch traps?
(a) Banana.
(b) Apple.
(c) Birdseed.
(d) Seal blubber.

3. What part of the finch is the tarsus?
(a) Wing.
(b) Neck.
(c) Leg.
(d) Beak.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Galapagos island is mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 1?

2. What animal does Weiner describe as having "the body plan of a volcano"?

3. How many species of Ground finch are there in the Galapagos?

4. What animals did Darwin call "imps of darkness"?

5. Where do the Grants work in the United States?

(see the answer key)

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