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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Which animal did Lewontin and Birch study?
(a) Goldfish.
(b) Shark.
(c) Mosquito.
(d) Fruit fly.

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

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

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

10. Where did Darwin find the finch Magnirostris magnirostris?
(a) Santa Cruz.
(b) San Cristóbal.
(c) Genovesa.
(d) Floreana.

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

12. What do the Grants keep in the freezer in the "sub-subbasement'?
(a) Ice core samples.
(b) Blood samples.
(c) Hotdogs.
(d) Bacteria.

13. On which island do humans not normally live?
(a) Floreana.
(b) Santa Cruz.
(c) Genovesa.
(d) San Cristóbal.

14. Weiner states in Chapter 14 that the finches are like which work of art?
(a) Pieta.
(b) Michelangelo's Prisoners.
(c) Guernica.
(d) David.

15. How many species of Cichlid live in Lake Victoria?
(a) 200.
(b) 56.
(c) 15.
(d) 500.

Short Answer Questions

1. In chapter 15, Weiner discusses the growth of which microbe in a Petri dish?

2. What is different from farm to farm in the Mississippi Delta?

3. Who wrote the article on global warming that is discussed in Chapter 18?

4. Approximately how many species of birds are there in the world?

5. Who is studying the Sticklebacks?

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