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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. How much rain fell on the day the severe drought ended, as mentioned in Chapter 5?
(a) One inch.
(b) Thirty millimeters.
(c) Fifty millimeters.
(d) Two inches.

2. What caused the heavy rains in December 1982?
(a) El Niño.
(b) Global warming.
(c) Unusually cold weather.
(d) A typhoon.

3. Who is quoted in the opening of Chapter 6?
(a) Thomas Henry Huxley.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Joseph Hooker.
(d) John Donne.

4. What organization did Tjitte de Vries direct?
(a) The Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
(b) The Environmental Protection Agency.
(c) The Charles Darwin Research Station.
(d) The Finch Unit.

5. As described at the end of Chapter 6, for what were Trevor Price and Lisle Gibbs waiting?
(a) Rain.
(b) The dry season.
(c) A bus.
(d) Nightfall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many islands are in the Galapagos Archipelago?

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

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

4. In Chapter 5, to which mythical figure does Weiner compare the finches?

5. Where did John Endler build his experimental ponds?

(see the answer key)

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