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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. On what drenched island near the equator do finches live, as mentioned in Chapter 19?
(a) Rapa Nui.
(b) Panama.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) Cocos.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who draws a chart at the end of Chapter 14?

2. How many people carry the bacteria that causes tuberculosis?

3. Weiner states in Chapter 14 that the finches are like which work of art?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Weiner's hypothesis on the physical aspect of human consciousness.

2. Answer Weiner's question, "Why are there so many kinds of animals?"

3. Describe what Martin Taylor does with the moth samples he receives.

4. Describe the act of "speciation" in the haw flies.

5. What is the significance of the finch's songs? Explain in detail.

6. What is the significance of Darwin's spelling errors for modern science?

7. Describe the place in which the Grants keep finch blood samples.

8. Describe the two shorelines that Weiner discusses in Chapter 11.

9. Why do plants hybridize rather readily?

10. Explain how ocean currents affect the Galapagos Islands.

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