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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Grants' research is compared to which novel?
(a) Anna Karenina.
(b) Great Expectations.
(c) Jane Eyre.
(d) War and Peace.

3. Of whom does Peter Grant keep newspaper photos on his office door?
(a) Nicola Grant.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Rosemary.
(d) A bagpipe player.

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

5. Which book is quoted at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Genesis.
(b) Ovid.
(c) The Odyssey.
(d) Gilgamesh.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is "the greatest authority on plants of the Galapagos"?

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

3. In chapter 15, Weiner discusses the growth of which microbe in a Petri dish?

4. What normally causes the finches not to eat Chamaesyce?

5. Who argued against the principle of divergence using the phrase "the Ghost of Competition Past"?

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