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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times has the environment changed as rapidly as in the 20th century?

2. On which island do humans not normally live?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lewontin and Birch discover about the Dacus tryoni?

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

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

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

5. Describe how Biston betularia changed color and why it is changing back.

6. What significance did Hermon Carey Bumpus discover in the sparrows' deaths? What significance did Peter Grant see?

7. Explain the humor that the Grants find in the painting Science Is Measurement.

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

9. Choose one example from the text regarding how humans affect other species, and explain it.

10. What effect do the finches have on cactus flowers?

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