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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many genera of plants did Darwin's friend find in a "small fallow field in Kent"?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) 7200.
(d) 108.

2. Which book is quoted at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Genesis.
(c) Gilgamesh.
(d) The Odyssey.

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

4. What is the name of the village on Santa Cruz?
(a) Santiago.
(b) Puerto Ayora.
(c) Rapa Nui.
(d) Puerto Vallarta.

5. How long was the "Thinking Path"?
(a) 1 mile.
(b) 2 miles.
(c) .25 miles.
(d) .5 miles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which famous writer went to Christ's College before Darwin?

3. Where does Jamie Smith study sparrows?

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

5. Of whom does Peter Grant keep newspaper photos on his office door?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the "most miserable piece of data" Peter Boag ever gathered? Explain.

2. Explain the significance of black and brown feathers in finch males, as discussed in Chapter 6.

3. Describe the appearance of Daphne Major after it stopped raining in Chapter 7.

4. Explain the significance of the Tribulus seed for Darwin's finches.

5. Describe the Grants' filing system at Princeton.

6. What did Lack discover about the finches, and how was it significant?

7. Explain Weiner's assertion that "taxonomists can be classified into splitters and lumpers."

8. Summarize Endler's guppy experiments.

9. Describe the typical method of arrival on Daphne Major.

10. Explain Darwin's "eureka" from Chapter 10.

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