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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is speaking in the first sentence of Chapter 9?
(a) Rosemary.
(b) Trevor Price.
(c) Peter Grant.
(d) Darwin.
2. Of whom does Peter Grant keep newspaper photos on his office door?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) A bagpipe player.
(c) Rosemary.
(d) Nicola Grant.
3. Weiner compares the finches' hunt for seeds to which human food?
(a) Walnuts.
(b) Pistachios.
(c) Twinkies.
(d) Potato chips.
4. What Galapagos island is mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 1?
(a) Isabela.
(b) Daphne Major.
(c) Santiago.
(d) Sin Nombre.
5. On which island in the Galapagos archipelago did Darwin land first?
(a) Genovesa.
(b) San Cristóbal.
(c) Daphne.
(d) Isabel.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who devised the metaphor of the watch and the watchmaker?
2. Which animal did the evolutionist David Lack not consider when formulating his ideas, as mentioned in Chapter 4?
3. In Chapter 6, what does Weiner compare to a Petri dish?
4. How many times did the Croton trees bloom in the rains of 1982-83?
5. From what bird do the vampire finches drink blood?
Short Essay Questions
1. Compare the beaks of Jamie Smith's sparrows with the beaks of the finches.
2. Discuss the likelihood that two species will hybridize and the probable outcomes of such a hybridization.
3. Under what circumstances do finches drink nectar?
4. Describe a typical workday for the Grants on Daphne Major.
5. Explain the significance of black and brown feathers in finch males, as discussed in Chapter 6.
6. What was the "most miserable piece of data" Peter Boag ever gathered? Explain.
7. Describe some of the unusual finch behaviors during the drought.
8. Explain the significance about the year 1983 as described in Chapter 8.
9. What did Lack discover about the finches, and how was it significant?
10. Why did the crew of the Beagle want to stop in the Galapagos, and what did they find there?
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