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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the first person who could recognize all the finches on Daphne Major?
(a) Rosemary Grant.
(b) Ian Abbott.
(c) Nicola Grant.
(d) Trevor Price.

2. How long have the Grants been conducting research on this island?
(a) 12 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 20 years.

3. Which playwright does Weiner quote at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Maimonides.
(d) Chekhov.

4. From how far away do the Grants take photographs of the finches for their research?
(a) 91 centimeters.
(b) 1 meter.
(c) 27 centimeters.
(d) 53 centimeters.

5. To which of the researchers' objects are finches always attracted?
(a) A bucket of water.
(b) Fans.
(c) Boots.
(d) The trash can.

6. The Grants' research is compared to which novel?
(a) Anna Karenina.
(b) Great Expectations.
(c) War and Peace.
(d) Jane Eyre.

7. What color is the beak of a finch that is about to mate?
(a) Green.
(b) Brown.
(c) Black.
(d) Yellow.

8. In chapter 6, Weiner compares evolution to the motion of which object?
(a) A Jackson Pollock painting.
(b) A whirligig.
(c) A volcano.
(d) A kaleidoscope.

9. How many species of finch live in the Galapagos Islands?
(a) 7.
(b) 15.
(c) 13.
(d) 11.

10. On which island in the Galapagos archipelago did Darwin land first?
(a) Isabel.
(b) Daphne.
(c) Genovesa.
(d) San Cristóbal.

11. How many genera of plants did Darwin's friend find in a "small fallow field in Kent"?
(a) 12.
(b) 5.
(c) 7200.
(d) 108.

12. How much rain has fallen on the island in the past forty-four months?
(a) 50 inches.
(b) 500 inches.
(c) 1/5 of an inch.
(d) 5 inches.

13. Where did John Endler build his experimental ponds?
(a) University of Manitoba.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) University of Michigan.

14. Who named one finch species "Geospiza incerta," which, according to Weiner, means "ground finch, I guess"?
(a) Carolus Linnaeus.
(b) John Gould.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Peter Grant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As Rosemary relates, what sometimes causes a bamboo pole to become unexpectedly heavy as one carries it?

2. Whose appearance is described at the beginning of Chapter 8?

3. Who is "the greatest authority on plants of the Galapagos"?

4. Chapter 8 mentions that Peter has to deliver a lecture in which country?

5. How many times did the Croton trees bloom in the rains of 1982-83?

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