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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which weed does Chapter 4 discuss in detail?
(a) Caltrop.
(b) Lemon grass.
(c) Dandelion.
(d) Thistle.

5. What type of finch is Number 3425?
(a) Tree finch.
(b) Cactus finch.
(c) Ground finch.
(d) Goldfinch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which book is quoted at the beginning of Chapter 10?

2. What type of bird did Darwin breed back home in England?

3. What Galapagos island is mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 1?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain El Niño and how it affects the Galapagos Islands.

2. Discuss the likelihood that two species will hybridize and the probable outcomes of such a hybridization.

3. What was the "most miserable piece of data" Peter Boag ever gathered? Explain.

4. Explain Darwin's "eureka" from Chapter 10.

5. Which Fortis finches survived the drought of 1977, and why?

6. Why did Trevor Price wait so impatiently for rain, and how did he respond when it continued not to come?

7. Summarize Endler's guppy experiments.

8. Describe a typical workday for the Grants on Daphne Major.

9. How do the Grants collect blood samples from the finches?

10. Of what significance is Darwin's Sandwalk to science?

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