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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Trevor Price's assistant in the Galapagos?
(a) Tjitte de Vries.
(b) Carlos Nuñez.
(c) Laurene Ratcliffe.
(d) Spike Millington.

2. In what year was the Charles Darwin Research Station founded?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1960.

3. Who helped Jamie Smith analyze his data on sparrows?
(a) Peter Boag.
(b) Ian Abbott.
(c) Dolph Schluter.
(d) Peter Grant.

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

5. Which book is quoted at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Gilgamesh.
(b) Ovid.
(c) The Odyssey.
(d) Genesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which animal did one finch attack during the dry year?

2. In the first paragraph of Chapter 11, Darwin is discussing the hybridization of which animal?

3. Who devised the metaphor of the watch and the watchmaker?

4. What part of the finch is the tarsus?

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

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