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

2. How many eggs did the best-breeding finch lay in the rainy season?
(a) 32.
(b) 29.
(c) 14.
(d) 20.

3. What is the name of the village on Santa Cruz?
(a) Rapa Nui.
(b) Puerto Ayora.
(c) Santiago.
(d) Puerto Vallarta.

4. What do Crossbills eat?
(a) Acorns.
(b) The seeds in pinecones.
(c) Earthworms.
(d) Berries.

5. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?
(a) Fruit flies.
(b) Manta rays.
(c) Fruit bats.
(d) Dragonflies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of bird is the Crossbill?

2. What color is the beak of a finch that is about to mate?

3. What unusual seed did the Grants find on Genovesa after El Niño?

4. Who developed the "principle of divergence"?

5. In chapter 6, Weiner compares evolution to the motion of which object?

(see the answer key)

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