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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. What is different from farm to farm in the Mississippi Delta?
(a) Wildflowers.
(b) Mosquito density.
(c) Crop circles.
(d) Birdsong.

2. What color was the moth Biston betularia in the early 1800s?
(a) Black.
(b) Bluish green.
(c) White.
(d) Brown.

3. What do the Grants keep in the freezer in the "sub-subbasement'?
(a) Blood samples.
(b) Hotdogs.
(c) Ice core samples.
(d) Bacteria.

4. In the first paragraph of Chapter 11, Darwin is discussing the hybridization of which animal?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Pigeon.
(d) Fox.

5. How long did it take flies to develop resistance to the "resistance-proof" pesticides introduced in 1967?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 10 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Anvers Island?

2. Who wrote the book The Blind Watchmaker?

3. According to Ernst Mayr, what animal has "specialized in despecialization"?

4. Which plant has dominated Daphne Major since the flood?

5. Which Babylonian king "saw the writing on the wall"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect do the finches have on cactus flowers?

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

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

4. Describe what Martin Taylor does with the moth samples he receives.

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

6. What is the significance of Darwin's spelling errors for modern science?

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

8. Explain how bacteria build up resistance to antibiotics.

9. Explain the humor that the Grants find in the painting Science Is Measurement.

10. Describe Dolph Schluter's experiment in British Columbia.

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