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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who appears in Chapter 15 separating DNA in plastic bags?
(a) Peter Boag.
(b) Dolph Schluter.
(c) Trevor Price.
(d) Peter Grant.

2. What is the name of the librarian of the Charles Darwin Research Station?
(a) Doris Jackson.
(b) Ginger Jones.
(c) Gayle Davies.
(d) Dorothy Sayers.

3. What part of the human is comparable to the finch's beak, according to Weiner?
(a) The digestive tract.
(b) The eye.
(c) The hand.
(d) The mind.

4. Approximately how many species of birds are there in the world?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 970.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 305.

5. In the first paragraph of Chapter 11, Darwin is discussing the hybridization of which animal?
(a) Fox.
(b) Pigeon.
(c) Hawk.
(d) Eagle.

6. What is the painting called that Henry Stacy Marks created?
(a) The Birdwatcher's Evening.
(b) Science Is Measurement.
(c) David.
(d) Experiments in Ornithology.

7. Who is studying the Sticklebacks?
(a) Peter Boag.
(b) Dolph Schluter.
(c) Chris Chaplin.
(d) Trevor Price.

8. What do the Grants keep in the freezer in the "sub-subbasement'?
(a) Bacteria.
(b) Hotdogs.
(c) Ice core samples.
(d) Blood samples.

9. Which Babylonian king "saw the writing on the wall"?
(a) Cyrus.
(b) Xerxes.
(c) Belshazzar.
(d) Nebuchadnezzar.

10. For what university did the drosophilists discussed in Chapter 12 work?
(a) University of Michigan.
(b) New York University.
(c) Rockefeller University.
(d) Harvard University.

11. Who wrote the book The Blind Watchmaker?
(a) Rob Bell.
(b) Thomas Aquinas.
(c) Mark Powell.
(d) Richard Dawkins.

12. Who wrote the article on global warming that is discussed in Chapter 18?
(a) John Endler.
(b) Phillip Gingerich.
(c) Andrew Bakun.
(d) Trevor Price.

13. Who made the statement about Cleopatra's nose that is quoted in Chapter 11?
(a) Pythagorus.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Aesop.
(d) Pascal.

14. In chapter 16, Weiner compares evolutionists to characters in which classic story?
(a) Donnie Darko.
(b) Gulliver's Travels.
(c) A Christmas Carol.
(d) Frankenstein.

15. As mentioned in Chapter 16, Darwin states that which bird landed on his water pitcher?
(a) Finch.
(b) Mockingbird.
(c) Heron.
(d) Hawk.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the ancestors of humans start to walk?

2. What do Crossbills eat?

3. What does the Latin word "reticulum" mean?

4. What is the name of the Charles Darwin Research Station's journal?

5. What type of bird is the Crossbill?

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