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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Trevor Price's assistant in the Galapagos?
(a) Spike Millington.
(b) Tjitte de Vries.
(c) Carlos Nuñez.
(d) Laurene Ratcliffe.

2. Whose appearance is described at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Rosemary Grant.
(b) Peter Boag.
(c) Laurene Ratcliffe.
(d) Ian Abbott.

3. Who devised the metaphor of the watch and the watchmaker?
(a) Joseph Hooker.
(b) William Paley.
(c) Darwin.
(d) William Shakespeare.

4. Where did Darwin find the finch Magnirostris magnirostris?
(a) Santa Cruz.
(b) Floreana.
(c) San Cristóbal.
(d) Genovesa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of bird is the Crossbill?

2. How many eggs did the best-breeding finch lay in the rainy season?

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

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

5. Who was the first person who could recognize all the finches on Daphne Major?

(see the answer key)

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