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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. Approximately how many species of plants exist in the Galapagos?
(a) 2000.
(b) 12.
(c) 700.
(d) 50.
2. Who was the first person who could recognize all the finches on Daphne Major?
(a) Trevor Price.
(b) Ian Abbott.
(c) Nicola Grant.
(d) Rosemary Grant.
3. The Grants' research is compared to which novel?
(a) Jane Eyre.
(b) Great Expectations.
(c) War and Peace.
(d) Anna Karenina.
4. What type of bird did Darwin breed back home in England?
(a) Mockingbirds.
(b) Sparrows.
(c) Pigeons.
(d) Swallows.
5. Where did Rosemary spend her childhood?
(a) London.
(b) Canada.
(c) The Lake District.
(d) Paris.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many species of finch live in the Galapagos Islands?
2. Chapter 8 mentions that Peter has to deliver a lecture in which country?
3. Who devised the metaphor of the watch and the watchmaker?
4. Which classic work of literature did Darwin take with him on his trip to the Galapagos Islands?
5. Weiner compares the Cactus finch to whom in the beginning of Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the occurrence of natural selection that Dolph Schluter found in the sparrows.
2. Explain the significance of black and brown feathers in finch males, as discussed in Chapter 6.
3. Compare the beaks of Jamie Smith's sparrows with the beaks of the finches.
4. Describe some of the differences between the finch species in the Galapagos.
5. Explain Weiner's assertion that "taxonomists can be classified into splitters and lumpers."
6. How did Darwin react to the finches while he was in the Galapagos and later while he was in England?
7. Describe a typical workday for the Grants on Daphne Major.
8. Summarize Endler's guppy experiments.
9. Compare and contrast evolution as seen through the fossil record and as observed in real time.
10. What was the "most miserable piece of data" Peter Boag ever gathered? Explain.
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