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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of bird is the Crossbill?
(a) Hawk.
(b) Woodpecker.
(c) Sparrow.
(d) Finch.

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

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

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

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

6. In what month do cacti on Daphne Major start to bloom?
(a) December.
(b) July.
(c) March.
(d) October.

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

8. Which animal did Lewontin and Birch study?
(a) Fruit fly.
(b) Shark.
(c) Mosquito.
(d) Goldfish.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Where is Anvers Island?
(a) Near the British Isles.
(b) In the South Pacific.
(c) In the Baltic.
(d) In the Antarctic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Darwin pick up the second volume of Principles of Geology?

2. On what drenched island near the equator do finches live, as mentioned in Chapter 19?

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

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

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

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