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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where does Martin Taylor collect his moth specimens?
(a) The Midwest.
(b) The Pacific Northwest.
(c) The East Coast.
(d) The Bible Belt.

2. What is the name of the mutant gene that helps flies resist DDT?
(a) Env.
(b) Mvw.
(c) Zdp.
(d) Kdr.

3. What animal does Scott Carroll study?
(a) The English bulldog.
(b) The soapberry bug.
(c) The tsetse fly.
(d) The water buffalo.

4. What plant did the botanist Edgar Anderson study in the Ozarks?
(a) Creeping phlox.
(b) Spiderwort.
(c) Lichens.
(d) Dandelions.

5. What does the Latin word "reticulum" mean?
(a) Net.
(b) Line.
(c) Diversion.
(d) Explosion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. On which island do humans not normally live?
(a) Santa Cruz.
(b) Genovesa.
(c) San Cristóbal.
(d) Floreana.

14. Who draws a chart at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) Peter Boag and Laurene Ratcliffe.
(b) Trevor Price.
(c) Martin Taylor.
(d) Peter and Rosemary.

15. How much rain fell in the driest year on Daphne Major?
(a) 6 millimeters.
(b) 70 millimeters.
(c) None.
(d) 5 meters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does an old woman in Puerto Ayora eat to avenge herself against the finches?

2. Where is Anvers Island?

3. In the first paragraph of Chapter 11, Darwin is discussing the hybridization of which animal?

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

5. For what university did the drosophilists discussed in Chapter 12 work?

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