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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?
(a) Manta rays.
(b) Fruit flies.
(c) Fruit bats.
(d) Dragonflies.

2. In Chapter 6, what does Weiner compare to a Petri dish?
(a) Earth.
(b) New York City.
(c) Genovesa.
(d) Daphne Major.

3. Which of the following is not a predator mentioned in Chapter 6?
(a) Piranha.
(b) Rivulus hartii.
(c) Cichlid.
(d) Prawn.

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

5. In the first paragraph of Chapter 11, Darwin is discussing the hybridization of which animal?
(a) Pigeon.
(b) Fox.
(c) Eagle.
(d) Hawk.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what book does Darwin discuss "sexual selection"?

2. Who is quoted in the opening of Chapter 6?

3. What color "indicates age and experience" in the male finches' feathers?

4. Where did John Endler build his experimental ponds?

5. Where did Darwin pick up the second volume of Principles of Geology?

(see the answer key)

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