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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As mentioned in Chapter 5, which book did Laurene Ratcliffe read while waiting for rain on Daphne Major?
(a) A Streetcar Named Desire.
(b) The Agony and the Ecstasy.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) The Sound and the Fury.

2. Where do the Grants work in the United States?
(a) The Ohio State University.
(b) NASA.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Yale University.

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

4. Who devised the metaphor of the watch and the watchmaker?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) William Paley.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Joseph Hooker.

5. Which classic work of literature did Darwin take with him on his trip to the Galapagos Islands?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) The Divine Comedy.
(c) Candide.
(d) Paradise Lost.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of animal was the Eohippus (or the Hyracotherium)?

3. Which animal did one finch attack during the dry year?

4. How much rain has fallen on the island in the past forty-four months?

5. What part of the finch is the tarsus?

(see the answer key)

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