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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of animal was the Eohippus (or the Hyracotherium)?
(a) Monkey.
(b) Cow.
(c) Horse.
(d) Turtle.

2. What organism did Darwin's colleague Joseph Hooker study?
(a) Bracket fungi.
(b) Seals.
(c) Ferns.
(d) Sea cucumbers.

3. What is the nickname by which Peter calls the finch in Chapter 1?
(a) Famous Bird.
(b) Trouble.
(c) Oolong Oolong.
(d) Cheeky.

4. What is the name of the village on Santa Cruz?
(a) Puerto Vallarta.
(b) Santiago.
(c) Puerto Ayora.
(d) Rapa Nui.

5. What does the Difficilis on the Pinta eat?
(a) Grass seeds.
(b) Insects.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) Tribulus seeds.

6. Who was Trevor Price's assistant in the Galapagos?
(a) Tjitte de Vries.
(b) Carlos Nuñez.
(c) Laurene Ratcliffe.
(d) Spike Millington.

7. How many eggs did the best-breeding finch lay in the rainy season?
(a) 20.
(b) 29.
(c) 14.
(d) 32.

8. At what university did Lisle Gibbs study?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Washington University of St. Louis.
(c) Ohio State University.
(d) University of Michigan.

9. What does Weiner compare to the "flaming sword at the gates of Eden"?
(a) The principle of divergence.
(b) El Niño.
(c) Sexual selection.
(d) Natural selection.

10. What was the name of Darwin's grandfather?
(a) Martin.
(b) Augustine.
(c) Erasmus.
(d) Anselm.

11. What is the name of the animal resulting from the cross between a male horse and a female donkey?
(a) Miniature horse.
(b) Zebroid.
(c) Mule.
(d) Hinny.

12. What organization did Tjitte de Vries direct?
(a) The Environmental Protection Agency.
(b) The Finch Unit.
(c) The Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
(d) The Charles Darwin Research Station.

13. Which of the following is not a predator mentioned in Chapter 6?
(a) Rivulus hartii.
(b) Cichlid.
(c) Prawn.
(d) Piranha.

14. As mentioned in Chapter 5, which book did Laurene Ratcliffe read while waiting for rain on Daphne Major?
(a) The Sound and the Fury.
(b) Waiting for Godot.
(c) A Streetcar Named Desire.
(d) The Agony and the Ecstasy.

15. Approximately how many islands are in the Galapagos Archipelago?
(a) 50.
(b) 10.
(c) 36.
(d) 24.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the beak of a finch that is about to mate?

2. Who is quoted in the opening of Chapter 6?

3. In chapter 6, Weiner compares evolution to the motion of which object?

4. As described at the end of Chapter 6, for what were Trevor Price and Lisle Gibbs waiting?

5. What part of the finch is the tarsus?

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