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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book is quoted at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Daniel.
(c) The Iliad.
(d) Revelation.

2. How many people carry the bacteria that causes tuberculosis?
(a) 1 in 4.
(b) 1 in 6.
(c) 1 in 9.
(d) 1 in 3.

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

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

5. Which scientist is mentioned in Chapter 14 as strongly advocating the need for measurement in science?
(a) Blaise Pascal.
(b) Lord Kelvin.
(c) Louis Pasteur.
(d) Marie Curie.

6. How many species of Cichlid live in Lake Victoria?
(a) 200.
(b) 56.
(c) 15.
(d) 500.

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

8. How long did it take flies to develop resistance to the "resistance-proof" pesticides introduced in 1967?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 18 months.

9. On what drenched island near the equator do finches live, as mentioned in Chapter 19?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Rapa Nui.
(c) Panama.
(d) Cocos.

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

11. 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.

12. What type of computer does Rosemary use?
(a) Dell.
(b) Hewlett Packard.
(c) Macintosh.
(d) Gateway.

13. As witnessed by Hermon Carey Bumpus, which birds died en masse after a blizzard?
(a) English sparrows.
(b) Chickadees.
(c) Nuthatches.
(d) Starlings.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does Martin Taylor collect his moth specimens?

2. What is the name of the mutant gene that helps flies resist DDT?

3. Where did Darwin find the finch Magnirostris magnirostris?

4. As mentioned in Chapter 16, Darwin states that which bird landed on his water pitcher?

5. What plant did the botanist Edgar Anderson study in the Ozarks?

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