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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. What color is the beak of a finch that is about to mate?
(a) Green.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Black.
(d) Brown.

2. In what year did the Grants first go to the Galapagos?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1976.
(d) 1973.

3. As related at the end of Chapter 3, which person sustained an injury from the barnacles on Daphne Major?
(a) Lisle Gibbs.
(b) Ian Abbott.
(c) Peter Boag.
(d) Peter Grant.

4. How many species of finch live in the Galapagos Islands?
(a) 15.
(b) 13.
(c) 11.
(d) 7.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times did the Croton trees bloom in the rains of 1982-83?

2. Which weed does Chapter 4 discuss in detail?

3. How much rain fell on the day the severe drought ended, as mentioned in Chapter 5?

4. What plants did the Grants find growing on Nuñez?

5. To which of the researchers' objects are finches always attracted?

(see the answer key)

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