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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the illustration in The Origin of Species depict?
(a) An iguana.
(b) A mockingbird.
(c) The "tree of life."
(d) London Bridge.

2. Where did Darwin find the finch Magnirostris magnirostris?
(a) Genovesa.
(b) Floreana.
(c) Santa Cruz.
(d) San Cristóbal.

3. Who has catalogued Darwin's spelling mistakes?
(a) Frank J. Sulloway.
(b) Sir John Sebright.
(c) Rosemary Grant.
(d) Jackson Pollock.

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

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

6. Whom did Darwin commission to breed unusual combinations of pigeons?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) John Sewall.
(c) Arthur Conan Doyle.
(d) Sir John Sebright.

7. Which plant has dominated Daphne Major since the flood?
(a) Cactus.
(b) Cacabus.
(c) Passionflower.
(d) Tribulus.

8. How many times has the environment changed as rapidly as in the 20th century?
(a) 0.
(b) 12.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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

10. When did the ancestors of humans start to walk?
(a) 8000 years ago.
(b) 40 million years ago.
(c) 6-7 million years ago.
(d) 200,000 years ago.

11. Where did Darwin pick up the second volume of Principles of Geology?
(a) Buenos Aires.
(b) Guayaquil.
(c) Valparaíso.
(d) Montevideo.

12. What does an old woman in Puerto Ayora eat to avenge herself against the finches?
(a) Tribulus seeds.
(b) Finch soup.
(c) Cacabus seeds.
(d) Rotisserie finch.

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

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

15. What is the name of the Charles Darwin Research Station's journal?
(a) Noticias del Mar.
(b) Darwin Daily.
(c) Imprimatur Evolutionii.
(d) Noticias de Galapagos.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people carry the bacteria that causes tuberculosis?

2. Which scientist is mentioned in Chapter 14 as strongly advocating the need for measurement in science?

3. How many species of finch are there in Hawaii?

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

5. What is different from farm to farm in the Mississippi Delta?

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