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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is studying the Sticklebacks?
(a) Dolph Schluter.
(b) Peter Boag.
(c) Chris Chaplin.
(d) Trevor Price.

2. Who draws a chart at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) Peter Boag and Laurene Ratcliffe.
(b) Peter and Rosemary.
(c) Trevor Price.
(d) Martin Taylor.

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

4. Where is Anvers Island?
(a) In the Antarctic.
(b) In the South Pacific.
(c) In the Baltic.
(d) Near the British Isles.

5. What is "one of the greatest remaining mysteries in biology," according to Weiner?
(a) The missing link.
(b) Human consciousness.
(c) Origins of the universe.
(d) Pigmentation.

6. What plant did the botanist Edgar Anderson study in the Ozarks?
(a) Dandelions.
(b) Creeping phlox.
(c) Spiderwort.
(d) Lichens.

7. For what university did the drosophilists discussed in Chapter 12 work?
(a) Rockefeller University.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) New York University.
(d) Harvard University.

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

9. How long did it take flies to develop resistance to the "resistance-proof" pesticides introduced in 1967?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 18 months.

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

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

12. What is the name of the Charles Darwin Research Station's journal?
(a) Imprimatur Evolutionii.
(b) Noticias del Mar.
(c) Darwin Daily.
(d) Noticias de Galapagos.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Latin word "specere" mean?

2. As witnessed by Hermon Carey Bumpus, which birds died en masse after a blizzard?

3. What does an old woman in Puerto Ayora eat to avenge herself against the finches?

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

5. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?

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