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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who has catalogued Darwin's spelling mistakes?
(a) Sir John Sebright.
(b) Frank J. Sulloway.
(c) Rosemary Grant.
(d) Jackson Pollock.

4. Approximately how many species of birds are there in the world?
(a) 305.
(b) 970.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 10,000.

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

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

7. What animal does Scott Carroll study?
(a) The water buffalo.
(b) The English bulldog.
(c) The soapberry bug.
(d) The tsetse fly.

8. In chapter 16, Weiner compares evolutionists to characters in which classic story?
(a) A Christmas Carol.
(b) Frankenstein.
(c) Donnie Darko.
(d) Gulliver's Travels.

9. What is the name of the librarian of the Charles Darwin Research Station?
(a) Doris Jackson.
(b) Ginger Jones.
(c) Dorothy Sayers.
(d) Gayle Davies.

10. How much rain fell in the driest year on Daphne Major?
(a) 5 meters.
(b) 70 millimeters.
(c) 6 millimeters.
(d) None.

11. Chapter 17 showcases the evolution of which mammal?
(a) Fox.
(b) Manatee.
(c) Rhinoceros.
(d) Elephant.

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

13. What does the Latin word "reticulum" mean?
(a) Explosion.
(b) Diversion.
(c) Net.
(d) Line.

14. What animal does the Hawaiian Drosophila Project study?
(a) Fruit flies.
(b) Fruit bats.
(c) Manta rays.
(d) Dragonflies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does Martin Taylor collect his moth specimens?

2. Which animal did Lewontin and Birch study?

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

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

5. Which scientist is mentioned in Chapter 14 as strongly advocating the need for measurement in science?

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