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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. As described at the end of Chapter 6, for what were Trevor Price and Lisle Gibbs waiting?
(a) The dry season.
(b) A bus.
(c) Rain.
(d) Nightfall.

2. Which type of animal in the Galapagos has one alpha male that mates with many females?
(a) Iguana.
(b) Tortoise.
(c) Booby.
(d) Sea lion.

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

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

5. How much rain has fallen on the island in the past forty-four months?
(a) 5 inches.
(b) 500 inches.
(c) 50 inches.
(d) 1/5 of an inch.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who gave the lecture "The Demonstrative Evidence of Evolution"?

4. What unusual seed did the Grants find on Genovesa after El Niño?

5. How many species of finch live in the Galapagos Islands?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the significance of black and brown feathers in finch males, as discussed in Chapter 6.

2. Describe the Grants' filing system at Princeton.

3. Compare and contrast the Grants' tools on Daphne Major and their tools at Princeton.

4. Describe Darwin's personal life after returning to England.

5. Describe some of the unusual finch behaviors during the drought.

6. Describe the appearance of Daphne Major after it stopped raining in Chapter 7.

7. How did Darwin react to the finches while he was in the Galapagos and later while he was in England?

8. What did Lack discover about the finches, and how was it significant?

9. Explain the occurrence of natural selection that Dolph Schluter found in the sparrows.

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

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