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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. Cactus finches build their nest to protect themselves from which animal?
(a) Owls.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Scorpions.
(d) Hawks.

2. How many species of finch live in the Galapagos Islands?
(a) 7.
(b) 13.
(c) 15.
(d) 11.

3. Who gave the lecture "The Demonstrative Evidence of Evolution"?
(a) William Paley.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Thomas Henry Huxley.
(d) David Lack.

4. In what year did the Grants first go to the Galapagos?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1985.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is quoted in the opening of Chapter 6?

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

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

5. In what year did the Grants' team first notice the finches' hybrid breeding?

(see the answer key)

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