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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Difficilis on the Pinta eat?
(a) Tribulus seeds.
(b) Seaweed.
(c) Grass seeds.
(d) Insects.

2. What is the name of the animal resulting from the cross between a male horse and a female donkey?
(a) Zebroid.
(b) Miniature horse.
(c) Mule.
(d) Hinny.

3. What organization did Tjitte de Vries direct?
(a) The Finch Unit.
(b) The Charles Darwin Research Station.
(c) The Environmental Protection Agency.
(d) The Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

4. What do the iguanas in the Galapagos eat?
(a) Finches.
(b) Croton seeds.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) Insects.

5. In the dry year, how much bigger was the beak of a surviving finch than that of a dead finch?
(a) Two millimeters.
(b) Three millimeters.
(c) One millimeter.
(d) Half a millimeter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many species of finch live in the Galapagos Islands?

3. In chapter 16, Weiner compares evolutionists to characters in which classic story?

4. What book did Darwin call his "Big Book"?

5. What animal does Weiner describe as having "the body plan of a volcano"?

(see the answer key)

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