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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose appearance is described at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Ian Abbott.
(b) Laurene Ratcliffe.
(c) Peter Boag.
(d) Rosemary Grant.

2. Who is quoted in the opening of Chapter 6?
(a) John Donne.
(b) Thomas Henry Huxley.
(c) Joseph Hooker.
(d) William Shakespeare.

3. What was the name of the captain of Darwin's ship?
(a) Dickens.
(b) FitzRoy.
(c) McCoy.
(d) FitzWilliam.

4. What plants did the Grants find growing on Nuñez?
(a) Hibiscus.
(b) Green beans.
(c) Oak trees.
(d) Flame trees.

5. Which playwright does Weiner quote at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Maimonides.
(d) Chekhov.

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

7. As Rosemary relates, what sometimes causes a bamboo pole to become unexpectedly heavy as one carries it?
(a) Guano.
(b) A hawk.
(c) An eagle.
(d) An iguana.

8. What animals did Darwin call "imps of darkness"?
(a) Sea lions.
(b) Mockingbirds.
(c) Tortoises.
(d) Iguanas.

9. Who was Trevor Price's assistant in the Galapagos?
(a) Tjitte de Vries.
(b) Carlos Nuñez.
(c) Spike Millington.
(d) Laurene Ratcliffe.

10. Who argued against the principle of divergence using the phrase "the Ghost of Competition Past"?
(a) Peter Boag.
(b) Joseph Connell.
(c) Darwin.
(d) David Lack.

11. Who has deeply studied the history of studying evolution in the Galapagos Islands?
(a) William Hamilton.
(b) David Anderson.
(c) Peter Boag.
(d) Frank J. Sulloway.

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

13. What Galapagos island is mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 1?
(a) Sin Nombre.
(b) Santiago.
(c) Daphne Major.
(d) Isabela.

14. Weiner compares the Cactus finch to whom in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) The Pittsburgh Penguins.
(b) The Pilgrims.
(c) Plains Indians.
(d) The faculty of the University of Michigan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sparrows survived the first population crash that Jamie Smith studied?

2. At what university did Lisle Gibbs study?

3. How many genera of plants did Darwin's friend find in a "small fallow field in Kent"?

4. Of whom does Peter Grant keep newspaper photos on his office door?

5. How much rain has fallen on the island in the past forty-four months?

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