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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. According to Weiner, the woodpecker's beak is similar to what tool?
(a) Chisel.
(b) Pickaxe.
(c) Awl.
(d) Shovel.

2. What part of the finch is the tarsus?
(a) Neck.
(b) Wing.
(c) Beak.
(d) Leg.

3. In what year did the Grants' team first notice the finches' hybrid breeding?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1991.

4. Which classic work of literature did Darwin take with him on his trip to the Galapagos Islands?
(a) The Divine Comedy.
(b) Candide.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Paradise Lost.

5. Which type of animal in the Galapagos has one alpha male that mates with many females?
(a) Iguana.
(b) Booby.
(c) Tortoise.
(d) Sea lion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the animal resulting from the cross between a male horse and a female donkey?

2. What organism did Darwin's colleague Joseph Hooker study?

3. On which island in the Galapagos archipelago did Darwin land first?

4. What do the iguanas in the Galapagos eat?

5. Who is "the greatest authority on plants of the Galapagos"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe what Peter Boag and Laurene Ratcliffe did on Daphne Major while waiting for rain.

3. Explain Darwin's "eureka" from Chapter 10.

4. What difference did Darwin see among the barnacles, and how did he react?

5. Describe the appearance of Daphne Major after it stopped raining in Chapter 7.

6. Explain the metaphor of the watch and the watchmaker.

7. Describe some of the unusual finch behaviors during the drought.

8. Explain the occurrence of natural selection that Dolph Schluter found in the sparrows.

9. Describe some of the differences between the finch species in the Galapagos.

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

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