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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the Latin word "specere" mean?
(a) To see.
(b) To be speckled.
(c) To sing.
(d) To specify.

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

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

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

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

8. Which Greek philosopher is quoted at the end of Chapter 13?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Heraclitus.
(c) Plato.
(d) Euripides.

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

10. What is different from farm to farm in the Mississippi Delta?
(a) Wildflowers.
(b) Crop circles.
(c) Mosquito density.
(d) Birdsong.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many species of finch are there in Hawaii?

3. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?

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

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

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