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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Galapagos island is mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 1?
(a) Sin Nombre.
(b) Santiago.
(c) Daphne Major.
(d) Isabela.

2. What normally causes the finches not to eat Chamaesyce?
(a) Its latex substance.
(b) Its furry exterior.
(c) Its hardness.
(d) Its thorns.

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

4. Who wrote the book Natural Selection in the Wild?
(a) Peter Grant.
(b) David Lack.
(c) John Endler.
(d) Charles Darwin.

5. Which playwright does Weiner quote at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Maimonides.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the village on Santa Cruz?

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

3. Which type of animal in the Galapagos has one alpha male that mates with many females?

4. Who named one finch species "Geospiza incerta," which, according to Weiner, means "ground finch, I guess"?

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

(see the answer key)

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