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

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

3. Where did John Endler build his experimental ponds?
(a) Yale University.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) University of Manitoba.
(d) Princeton University.

4. As Rosemary relates, what sometimes causes a bamboo pole to become unexpectedly heavy as one carries it?
(a) Guano.
(b) An iguana.
(c) A hawk.
(d) An eagle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Darwin commission to breed unusual combinations of pigeons?

2. In the dry year, how much bigger was the beak of a surviving finch than that of a dead finch?

3. Who devised the idea of "adaptive landscapes"?

4. What was the name of the captain of Darwin's ship?

5. How many species of finch are there in Hawaii?

(see the answer key)

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