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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Difficulties on Theory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unique about white cats with blue eyes?
(a) They are not seen in the wild.
(b) They are blind.
(c) They do not reproduce.
(d) They are deaf.

2. What aspect of organisms is not caused by chance?
(a) Size.
(b) Gender.
(c) Variation.
(d) Location.

3. Who is one individual that Darwin mentions as helping him in every way prior to the publication of The Origin of Species?
(a) Rev. W. Horbert.
(b) Dr. Hooker.
(c) Edward Forbes.
(d) Dr. Lovette.

4. Who believed that humans would fall into starvation because they could not meet the needs of the population?
(a) Maltus.
(b) Newton.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Hooker.

5. In what type of species are variations of the eye found?
(a) Humans.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Crustaceans.
(d) Birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4: Natural Selection, what does Darwin suggest about most variations?

2. What other field of science can natural selection be compared to?

3. Why does the point of possible starvation for animals occur sooner than for humans?

4. What tends to occur in large groups of genera?

5. Which of the following tends to live over larger areas?

(see the answer key)

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