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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 Chapter 5 ends, Weiner mentions which food that Darwin ate in the Galapagos?
(a) Berries.
(b) Fish.
(c) Greens.
(d) Tortoise.

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

3. Which animal did the evolutionist David Lack not consider when formulating his ideas, as mentioned in Chapter 4?
(a) Finches.
(b) Barnacles.
(c) Paramecia.
(d) Snails.

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

5. How many populations of finches did the Grants study during their first year in the Galapagos?
(a) 30.
(b) 21.
(c) 35.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Rosemary bait the finch traps?

2. How old are the oldest finches on the island?

3. Which playwright does Weiner quote at the end of Chapter 4?

4. What book did Darwin call his "Big Book"?

5. How long did Darwin study barnacles?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What difference did Darwin see among the barnacles, and how did he react?

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

5. How did the finches respond to the rain after the intense drought?

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

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

8. Why did the crew of the Beagle want to stop in the Galapagos, and what did they find there?

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

10. Compare the beaks of Jamie Smith's sparrows with the beaks of the finches.

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