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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. Which of the following is not a predator mentioned in Chapter 6?
(a) Cichlid.
(b) Piranha.
(c) Rivulus hartii.
(d) Prawn.
2. What book did Darwin call his "Big Book"?
(a) The Origin of Species.
(b) The Voyage of the Beagle.
(c) War and Peace.
(d) Galapagos.
3. In Chapter 5, to which mythical figure does Weiner compare the finches?
(a) Sisyphus.
(b) The Sirens.
(c) Icharus.
(d) Medusa.
4. How much rain has fallen on the island in the past forty-four months?
(a) 1/5 of an inch.
(b) 500 inches.
(c) 50 inches.
(d) 5 inches.
5. How many genera of plants did Darwin's friend find in a "small fallow field in Kent"?
(a) 12.
(b) 108.
(c) 5.
(d) 7200.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Weiner compare to the "flaming sword at the gates of Eden"?
2. What color "indicates age and experience" in the male finches' feathers?
3. Who is "the greatest authority on plants of the Galapagos"?
4. What is the name of the village on Santa Cruz?
5. As of the time of Rosemary's interview in Chapter 8, how many finches were not banded on Daphne Major?
Short Essay Questions
1. Of what significance is Darwin's Sandwalk to science?
2. Summarize Endler's guppy experiments.
3. What difference did Darwin see among the barnacles, and how did he react?
4. Explain El Niño and how it affects the Galapagos Islands.
5. Why did the crew of the Beagle want to stop in the Galapagos, and what did they find there?
6. Describe the typical method of arrival on Daphne Major.
7. Summarize the arguments of some of the biologists' early opposition to the theory of evolution.
8. Describe some of the unusual finch behaviors during the drought.
9. Describe the Grants' filing system at Princeton.
10. Why did Trevor Price wait so impatiently for rain, and how did he respond when it continued not to come?
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