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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the nickname by which Peter calls the finch in Chapter 1?
(a) Trouble.
(b) Cheeky.
(c) Oolong Oolong.
(d) Famous Bird.

2. In Chapter 5, to which mythical figure does Weiner compare the finches?
(a) Icharus.
(b) Sisyphus.
(c) The Sirens.
(d) Medusa.

3. Who analyzed the finch data from the 1970s using partial regression analysis?
(a) Ian Abbott.
(b) Trevor Price.
(c) Rosemary Grant.
(d) Peter Boag.

4. Which playwright does Weiner quote at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Maimonides.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Chekhov.

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

6. How many species of finch live in the Galapagos Islands?
(a) 13.
(b) 7.
(c) 11.
(d) 15.

7. What organization did Tjitte de Vries direct?
(a) The Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
(b) The Environmental Protection Agency.
(c) The Charles Darwin Research Station.
(d) The Finch Unit.

8. How many species of Ground finch are there in the Galapagos?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Eight.
(c) Six.
(d) Sixteen.

9. According to chapter 9, what percentage of the birds on Darwin's property were killed in the cold weather?
(a) 10%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 25%.

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

11. How many eggs did the best-breeding finch lay in the rainy season?
(a) 29.
(b) 20.
(c) 14.
(d) 32.

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

13. Which classic work of literature did Darwin take with him on his trip to the Galapagos Islands?
(a) The Divine Comedy.
(b) Candide.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Paradise Lost.

14. What type of finch is Number 3425?
(a) Cactus finch.
(b) Tree finch.
(c) Ground finch.
(d) Goldfinch.

15. The Grants' research is compared to which novel?
(a) Anna Karenina.
(b) Great Expectations.
(c) War and Peace.
(d) Jane Eyre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the beak of a finch that is about to mate?

2. What was the name of the boat by which the Grants traveled from island to island, as mentioned in Chapter 8?

3. Who devised the metaphor of the watch and the watchmaker?

4. What is the name of the instrument the Grants use to measure the hardness of the seeds the finches eat?

5. From how far away do the Grants take photographs of the finches for their research?

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