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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Which plant has dominated Daphne Major since the flood?
(a) Cacabus.
(b) Cactus.
(c) Passionflower.
(d) Tribulus.

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

10. What is the name of the librarian of the Charles Darwin Research Station?
(a) Gayle Davies.
(b) Dorothy Sayers.
(c) Doris Jackson.
(d) Ginger Jones.

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

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

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

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

15. What color was the moth Biston betularia in the early 1800s?
(a) Brown.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Bluish green.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many mating songs does each species of finch have?

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

3. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?

4. Where is Anvers Island?

5. Which animal did Lewontin and Birch study?

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