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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what bird do the vampire finches drink blood?
(a) Egrets.
(b) Robins.
(c) Boobies.
(d) Passenger pigeons.

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

3. 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.

4. Which of the following is not a predator mentioned in Chapter 6?
(a) Prawn.
(b) Piranha.
(c) Rivulus hartii.
(d) Cichlid.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which biologist thought of Darwin's finches as "not separate species at all, but 'hybrid swarms'"?

2. Chapter 8 mentions that Peter has to deliver a lecture in which country?

3. What part of the finch is the tarsus?

4. What organism did Darwin's colleague Joseph Hooker study?

5. Cactus finches build their nest to protect themselves from which animal?

(see the answer key)

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