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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How many E. coli bacteria can grow from one bacterium within eight hours?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 20 million.
(d) 5000.

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

7. In what state did Benjamin Walsh build his homestead?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) California.
(c) Illinois.
(d) West Virginia.

8. How many species of finch are there in Hawaii?
(a) 60.
(b) 32.
(c) 40.
(d) 113.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Weiner states in Chapter 14 that the finches are like which work of art?

2. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?

3. Where did Darwin find the finch Magnirostris magnirostris?

4. What type of bird is the Crossbill?

5. In chapter 16, Weiner compares evolutionists to characters in which classic story?

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