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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the painting called that Henry Stacy Marks created?

2. Which Babylonian king "saw the writing on the wall"?

3. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?

4. In chapter 15, Weiner discusses the growth of which microbe in a Petri dish?

5. On what drenched island near the equator do finches live, as mentioned in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Martin Taylor does with the moth samples he receives.

2. Describe the place in which the Grants keep finch blood samples.

3. Describe how Biston betularia changed color and why it is changing back.

4. Describe the two shorelines that Weiner discusses in Chapter 11.

5. Why do plants hybridize rather readily?

6. What significance did Hermon Carey Bumpus discover in the sparrows' deaths? What significance did Peter Grant see?

7. Explain the humor that the Grants find in the painting Science Is Measurement.

8. Summarize Gayle Davies' experience with the finches.

9. Summarize Weiner's hypothesis on the physical aspect of human consciousness.

10. Choose one example from the text regarding how humans affect other species, and explain it.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the Grants' tools on Daphne Major and at Princeton.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of journey as it is presented throughout the book, culminating with its appearance in the epilogue.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Weiner's use of description in the scene of the freezer that contains the finches' blood samples.

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