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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In chapter 15, Weiner discusses the growth of which microbe in a Petri dish?
(a) Ebola virus.
(b) Salmonella.
(c) Streptococcus.
(d) E. coli.

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

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

8. What do Crossbills eat?
(a) Earthworms.
(b) Acorns.
(c) The seeds in pinecones.
(d) Berries.

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

10. Weiner states in Chapter 14 that the finches are like which work of art?
(a) Guernica.
(b) David.
(c) Pieta.
(d) Michelangelo's Prisoners.

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

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

14. What is "one of the greatest remaining mysteries in biology," according to Weiner?
(a) Pigmentation.
(b) Human consciousness.
(c) The missing link.
(d) Origins of the universe.

15. How many mating songs does each species of finch have?
(a) 7.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book is quoted at the beginning of Chapter 15?

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

3. Which animal did Lewontin and Birch study?

4. What part of the human is comparable to the finch's beak, according to Weiner?

5. Who appears in Chapter 15 separating DNA in plastic bags?

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