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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 type of animal was the Eohippus (or the Hyracotherium)?
(a) Horse.
(b) Cow.
(c) Monkey.
(d) Turtle.

2. Weiner compares the finches' hunt for seeds to which human food?
(a) Pistachios.
(b) Walnuts.
(c) Twinkies.
(d) Potato chips.

3. Which are the "fittest finches on the island," as discussed in Chapter 8?
(a) The scandens.
(b) The fuliginosa.
(c) The hybrids between the scandens and the fortis.
(d) The hybrids between the magnirostris and the fortis.

4. Which famous writer went to Christ's College before Darwin?
(a) John Milton.
(b) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Daniel Defoe.

5. Which type of animal in the Galapagos has one alpha male that mates with many females?
(a) Sea lion.
(b) Iguana.
(c) Tortoise.
(d) Booby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What normally causes the finches not to eat Chamaesyce?

2. Who wrote the book Natural Selection in the Wild?

3. Whose appearance is described at the beginning of Chapter 8?

4. As Rosemary relates, what sometimes causes a bamboo pole to become unexpectedly heavy as one carries it?

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

(see the answer key)

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