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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. In chapter 15, Weiner discusses the growth of which microbe in a Petri dish?

2. What is different from farm to farm in the Mississippi Delta?

3. Whom did Darwin commission to breed unusual combinations of pigeons?

4. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?

5. What plant did the botanist Edgar Anderson study in the Ozarks?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain the Drosophila experiment and its significance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the act of "speciation" in the haw flies.

10. Why do plants hybridize rather readily?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of the importance of tiny measurements, including examples from the text in your explication.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of journey as it is presented throughout the book, culminating with its appearance in the epilogue.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of Darwin's Sandwalk as a symbol in the book.

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