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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helped Jamie Smith analyze his data on sparrows?
(a) Dolph Schluter.
(b) Peter Grant.
(c) Ian Abbott.
(d) Peter Boag.

2. What does Weiner compare to the "flaming sword at the gates of Eden"?
(a) El Niño.
(b) Natural selection.
(c) The principle of divergence.
(d) Sexual selection.

3. Who created the concept of the "darwin"?
(a) Peter Grant.
(b) Trevor Price.
(c) J.B.S. Haldane.
(d) Charles Darwin.

4. Who named one finch species "Geospiza incerta," which, according to Weiner, means "ground finch, I guess"?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Peter Grant.
(c) John Gould.
(d) Carolus Linnaeus.

5. As Rosemary relates, what sometimes causes a bamboo pole to become unexpectedly heavy as one carries it?
(a) An eagle.
(b) An iguana.
(c) A hawk.
(d) Guano.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organism did Darwin's colleague Joseph Hooker study?

2. In the dry year, how much bigger was the beak of a surviving finch than that of a dead finch?

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

4. How much rain fell on the day the severe drought ended, as mentioned in Chapter 5?

5. As mentioned in Chapter 5, which book did Laurene Ratcliffe read while waiting for rain on Daphne Major?

(see the answer key)

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