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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where does Martin Taylor collect his moth specimens?
(a) The Bible Belt.
(b) The Midwest.
(c) The East Coast.
(d) The Pacific Northwest.

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

3. When did the ancestors of humans start to walk?
(a) 8000 years ago.
(b) 6-7 million years ago.
(c) 200,000 years ago.
(d) 40 million years ago.

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

5. Who appears in Chapter 15 separating DNA in plastic bags?
(a) Peter Boag.
(b) Trevor Price.
(c) Peter Grant.
(d) Dolph Schluter.

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

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

8. Where did Darwin pick up the second volume of Principles of Geology?
(a) Guayaquil.
(b) Montevideo.
(c) Buenos Aires.
(d) Valparaíso.

9. What does an old woman in Puerto Ayora eat to avenge herself against the finches?
(a) Tribulus seeds.
(b) Rotisserie finch.
(c) Cacabus seeds.
(d) Finch soup.

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

11. Who wrote the book The Blind Watchmaker?
(a) Rob Bell.
(b) Mark Powell.
(c) Richard Dawkins.
(d) Thomas Aquinas.

12. What do Crossbills eat?
(a) Berries.
(b) Earthworms.
(c) Acorns.
(d) The seeds in pinecones.

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

14. In what month do cacti on Daphne Major start to bloom?
(a) December.
(b) July.
(c) March.
(d) October.

15. Whom did Darwin commission to breed unusual combinations of pigeons?
(a) John Sewall.
(b) Arthur Conan Doyle.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Sir John Sebright.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book is quoted at the beginning of Chapter 15?

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

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

4. What does the Latin word "reticulum" mean?

5. Where is Anvers Island?

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