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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Darwin study barnacles?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 7 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 25 years.

2. Where did Rosemary spend her childhood?
(a) Canada.
(b) The Lake District.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

3. Who gave the lecture "The Demonstrative Evidence of Evolution"?
(a) Thomas Henry Huxley.
(b) David Lack.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) William Paley.

4. Who is quoted in the opening of Chapter 6?
(a) John Donne.
(b) Joseph Hooker.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Thomas Henry Huxley.

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

6. Who developed the "principle of divergence"?
(a) Carolus Linnaeus.
(b) David Lack.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Trevor Price.

7. Who is speaking in the first sentence of Chapter 9?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Rosemary.
(c) Trevor Price.
(d) Peter Grant.

8. What do the iguanas in the Galapagos eat?
(a) Croton seeds.
(b) Seaweed.
(c) Finches.
(d) Insects.

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

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

11. Whose A Short History of Biology "killed Darwin with kindness," according to Weiner?
(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley's.
(b) Singer's.
(c) David Lack's.
(d) Peter Grant's.

12. In what year did the Grants' team first notice the finches' hybrid breeding?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1982.

13. What organism did Darwin's colleague Joseph Hooker study?
(a) Sea cucumbers.
(b) Seals.
(c) Bracket fungi.
(d) Ferns.

14. Which animal did one finch attack during the dry year?
(a) A hawk.
(b) A sea lion.
(c) A mockingbird.
(d) A black lizard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What plants did the Grants find growing on Nuñez?

2. What is the nickname by which Peter calls the finch in Chapter 1?

3. Where does Jamie Smith study sparrows?

4. Who is "the greatest authority on plants of the Galapagos"?

5. What unusual seed did the Grants find on Genovesa after El Niño?

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