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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of finch is Number 3425?

2. What unusual seed did the Grants find on Genovesa after El Niño?

3. Which are the "fittest finches on the island," as discussed in Chapter 8?

4. As related at the end of Chapter 3, which person sustained an injury from the barnacles on Daphne Major?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Which Fortis finches survived the drought of 1977, and why?

3. What was Darwin's seed experiment that is discussed in Chapter 9, and how did he carry it out?

4. Summarize Endler's guppy experiments.

5. Compare and contrast evolution as seen through the fossil record and as observed in real time.

6. Under what circumstances do finches drink nectar?

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

8. Why did the crew of the Beagle want to stop in the Galapagos, and what did they find there?

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

10. Describe the view from the peak of Daphne Major.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate and defend Weiner's use of epigraphs in the book.

Essay Topic 2

Describe two settings that you find within the book, and compare and contrast them.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the significance of evolutionary science in the development of antibiotics.

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