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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. How much rain fell on the day the severe drought ended, as mentioned in Chapter 5?
(a) Two inches.
(b) One inch.
(c) Fifty millimeters.
(d) Thirty millimeters.

2. In the dry year, how much bigger was the beak of a surviving finch than that of a dead finch?
(a) Three millimeters.
(b) Half a millimeter.
(c) Two millimeters.
(d) One millimeter.

3. What does the Difficilis on the Pinta eat?
(a) Grass seeds.
(b) Tribulus seeds.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) Insects.

4. To which of the researchers' objects are finches always attracted?
(a) A bucket of water.
(b) Fans.
(c) Boots.
(d) The trash can.

5. In what year did the Grants first go to the Galapagos?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Charles Darwin Research Station founded?

2. For what university did the drosophilists discussed in Chapter 12 work?

3. How many sparrows survived the first population crash that Jamie Smith studied?

4. Where does Jamie Smith study sparrows?

5. Where did Peter Grant pursue his undergraduate degree?

(see the answer key)

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