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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many E. coli bacteria can grow from one bacterium within eight hours?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 5000.

2. In the first paragraph of Chapter 11, Darwin is discussing the hybridization of which animal?
(a) Fox.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Pigeon.
(d) Hawk.

3. What part of the human is comparable to the finch's beak, according to Weiner?
(a) The eye.
(b) The digestive tract.
(c) The mind.
(d) The hand.

4. How many species of finch are there in Hawaii?
(a) 113.
(b) 60.
(c) 32.
(d) 40.

5. What does the illustration in The Origin of Species depict?
(a) The "tree of life."
(b) London Bridge.
(c) A mockingbird.
(d) An iguana.

6. Which scientist is mentioned in Chapter 14 as strongly advocating the need for measurement in science?
(a) Blaise Pascal.
(b) Lord Kelvin.
(c) Louis Pasteur.
(d) Marie Curie.

7. What book is quoted at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Revelation.
(c) Daniel.
(d) The Iliad.

8. What is different from farm to farm in the Mississippi Delta?
(a) Mosquito density.
(b) Crop circles.
(c) Wildflowers.
(d) Birdsong.

9. As witnessed by Hermon Carey Bumpus, which birds died en masse after a blizzard?
(a) Chickadees.
(b) Starlings.
(c) English sparrows.
(d) Nuthatches.

10. What does the Latin word "specere" mean?
(a) To sing.
(b) To see.
(c) To specify.
(d) To be speckled.

11. How many mating songs does each species of finch have?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

12. What type of computer does Rosemary use?
(a) Gateway.
(b) Hewlett Packard.
(c) Macintosh.
(d) Dell.

13. Which Babylonian king "saw the writing on the wall"?
(a) Nebuchadnezzar.
(b) Belshazzar.
(c) Xerxes.
(d) Cyrus.

14. What color was the moth Biston betularia in the early 1800s?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Bluish green.

15. Which Greek philosopher is quoted at the end of Chapter 13?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Heraclitus.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has catalogued Darwin's spelling mistakes?

2. Who is studying the Sticklebacks?

3. On what drenched island near the equator do finches live, as mentioned in Chapter 19?

4. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?

5. Who wrote the book The Blind Watchmaker?

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