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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 made the statement about Cleopatra's nose that is quoted in Chapter 11?
(a) Pythagorus.
(b) Pascal.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Aesop.

2. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?
(a) Fruit bats.
(b) Fruit flies.
(c) Manta rays.
(d) Dragonflies.

3. In chapter 15, Weiner discusses the growth of which microbe in a Petri dish?
(a) Streptococcus.
(b) Salmonella.
(c) Ebola virus.
(d) E. coli.

4. How much rain fell in the driest year on Daphne Major?
(a) None.
(b) 70 millimeters.
(c) 5 meters.
(d) 6 millimeters.

5. What book is quoted at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Revelation.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) The Iliad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of computer does Rosemary use?

2. In what state did Benjamin Walsh build his homestead?

3. What animal does Scott Carroll study?

4. Who has catalogued Darwin's spelling mistakes?

5. Who draws a chart at the end of Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. Choose one example from the text regarding how humans affect other species, and explain it.

2. What did Lewontin and Birch discover about the Dacus tryoni?

3. Summarize Gayle Davies' experience with the finches.

4. Describe the two shorelines that Weiner discusses in Chapter 11.

5. What is the significance of the finch's songs? Explain in detail.

6. Explain the Drosophila experiment and its significance.

7. Describe the place in which the Grants keep finch blood samples.

8. Summarize Weiner's hypothesis on the physical aspect of human consciousness.

9. Describe how Biston betularia changed color and why it is changing back.

10. What significance did Hermon Carey Bumpus discover in the sparrows' deaths? What significance did Peter Grant see?

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