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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. Who wrote the book The Blind Watchmaker?

2. How many E. coli bacteria can grow from one bacterium within eight hours?

3. What is the name of the Charles Darwin Research Station's journal?

4. In chapter 16, Weiner compares evolutionists to characters in which classic story?

5. On which island do humans not normally live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the Drosophila experiment and its significance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast two episodes of anthropomorphism in the book.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Weiner's use of description in the scene of the freezer that contains the finches' blood samples.

Essay Topic 3

Describe Darwin's personality and contributions to science.

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