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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. What is the name of the instrument the Grants use to measure the hardness of the seeds the finches eat?
(a) Sphygmomanometer.
(b) The McGill barometer.
(c) The McGill nutcracker.
(d) The Princeton omni-tool.

2. How many species of Cichlid live in Lake Victoria?
(a) 200.
(b) 15.
(c) 56.
(d) 500.

3. Weiner compares the Cactus finch to whom in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) The faculty of the University of Michigan.
(b) Plains Indians.
(c) The Pilgrims.
(d) The Pittsburgh Penguins.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which animal did Lewontin and Birch study?

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

3. Which animal did the evolutionist David Lack not consider when formulating his ideas, as mentioned in Chapter 4?

4. Which classic work of literature did Darwin take with him on his trip to the Galapagos Islands?

5. Which type of fish is discussed at length in Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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