The Beak of the Finch Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Jonathan Weiner
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 101 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Beak of the Finch Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Jonathan Weiner
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 101 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave the lecture "The Demonstrative Evidence of Evolution"?

2. Where do the Grants work in the United States?

3. As Chapter 5 ends, Weiner mentions which food that Darwin ate in the Galapagos?

4. In what year was the Charles Darwin Research Station founded?

5. Who is speaking in the first sentence of Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the significance of black and brown feathers in finch males, as discussed in Chapter 6.

2. Explain the metaphor of the watch and the watchmaker.

3. Of what significance is Darwin's Sandwalk to science?

4. What was the "most miserable piece of data" Peter Boag ever gathered? Explain.

5. What did Lack discover about the finches, and how was it significant?

6. Explain El NiƱo and how it affects the Galapagos Islands.

7. Describe the view from the peak of Daphne Major.

8. What was Darwin's seed experiment that is discussed in Chapter 9, and how did he carry it out?

9. Which Fortis finches survived the drought of 1977, and why?

10. Describe some of the differences between the finch species in the Galapagos.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of the watch and the watchmaker in Darwin's mental development and in the development of evolutionary thought.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the significance of evolutionary science in the development of antibiotics.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Weiner's use of description in the scene of the freezer that contains the finches' blood samples.

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