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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 was Trevor Price's assistant in the Galapagos?
(a) Tjitte de Vries.
(b) Laurene Ratcliffe.
(c) Carlos Nuñez.
(d) Spike Millington.

2. Who is speaking in the first sentence of Chapter 9?
(a) Rosemary.
(b) Darwin.
(c) Trevor Price.
(d) Peter Grant.

3. Who is "the greatest authority on plants of the Galapagos"?
(a) Ian Abbott.
(b) Peter Boag.
(c) Duncan Porter.
(d) David Lack.

4. How many genera of plants did Darwin's friend find in a "small fallow field in Kent"?
(a) 12.
(b) 108.
(c) 7200.
(d) 5.

5. What does Weiner compare to the "flaming sword at the gates of Eden"?
(a) The principle of divergence.
(b) El Niño.
(c) Sexual selection.
(d) Natural selection.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much rain fell on the day the severe drought ended, as mentioned in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 5, to which mythical figure does Weiner compare the finches?

3. What animals did Darwin call "imps of darkness"?

4. In what year did the Grants first go to the Galapagos?

5. Which type of fish is discussed at length in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. Under what circumstances do finches drink nectar?

2. Of what significance is Darwin's Sandwalk to science?

3. Describe Darwin's personal life after returning to England.

4. Summarize the arguments of some of the biologists' early opposition to the theory of evolution.

5. Summarize Endler's guppy experiments.

6. Explain the significance about the year 1983 as described in Chapter 8.

7. Describe the Grants' filing system at Princeton.

8. Describe the typical method of arrival on Daphne Major.

9. What was the "most miserable piece of data" Peter Boag ever gathered? Explain.

10. Explain El Niño and how it affects the Galapagos Islands.

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