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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As of the time of Rosemary's interview in Chapter 8, how many finches were not banded on Daphne Major?
(a) 100.
(b) 12.
(c) 20.
(d) 1.

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

3. Which classic work of literature did Darwin take with him on his trip to the Galapagos Islands?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Candide.
(c) The Divine Comedy.
(d) Paradise Lost.

4. As discussed in Chapter 4, which of the finches' traits did Peter Boag study for his thesis?
(a) Resistance to disease.
(b) Survival mechanisms.
(c) Tarsus length.
(d) Heritability.

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

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

7. What type of bird did Darwin breed back home in England?
(a) Pigeons.
(b) Sparrows.
(c) Mockingbirds.
(d) Swallows.

8. Weiner compares the finches' hunt for seeds to which human food?
(a) Twinkies.
(b) Walnuts.
(c) Pistachios.
(d) Potato chips.

9. Where did Rosemary spend her childhood?
(a) London.
(b) The Lake District.
(c) Canada.
(d) Paris.

10. How much rain fell on the day the severe drought ended, as mentioned in Chapter 5?
(a) Thirty millimeters.
(b) Two inches.
(c) One inch.
(d) Fifty millimeters.

11. 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 hybrids between the scandens and the fortis.
(d) The fuliginosa.

12. What was the name of the boat by which the Grants traveled from island to island, as mentioned in Chapter 8?
(a) The Grossbeak.
(b) The Sea Lion.
(c) The Enforcer.
(d) The Flamingo.

13. What unusual seed did the Grants find on Genovesa after El Niño?
(a) Wild grape.
(b) Sumac.
(c) Buckeye.
(d) Poison apple.

14. How many genera of plants did Darwin's friend find in a "small fallow field in Kent"?
(a) 5.
(b) 7200.
(c) 108.
(d) 12.

15. How many times did the Croton trees bloom in the rains of 1982-83?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 7.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, to which mythical figure does Weiner compare the finches?

2. What type of finch is Number 3425?

3. Who helped Jamie Smith analyze his data on sparrows?

4. What plants did the Grants find growing on Nuñez?

5. What animals did Darwin call "imps of darkness"?

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