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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 is the name of the librarian of the Charles Darwin Research Station?
(a) Ginger Jones.
(b) Dorothy Sayers.
(c) Doris Jackson.
(d) Gayle Davies.

2. Which are the "fittest finches on the island," as discussed in Chapter 8?
(a) The scandens.
(b) The hybrids between the magnirostris and the fortis.
(c) The fuliginosa.
(d) The hybrids between the scandens and the fortis.

3. How long have the Grants been conducting research on this island?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 5 years.

4. In what book does Darwin discuss "sexual selection"?
(a) The Descent of Man.
(b) Journals and Remarks.
(c) The Origin of Species.
(d) Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle.

5. Which animal did the evolutionist David Lack not consider when formulating his ideas, as mentioned in Chapter 4?
(a) Finches.
(b) Paramecia.
(c) Snails.
(d) Barnacles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the illustration in The Origin of Species depict?

2. Where did Peter Grant pursue his undergraduate degree?

3. Weiner compares the Cactus finch to whom in the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. What does Weiner compare to the "flaming sword at the gates of Eden"?

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

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