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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Lyell visit Big Bone Lick and purchase teeth of a baby mastodon?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1853.
(d) 1811.

2. When was a nearly complete Neanderthal skeleton found in a cave in southern France?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1911.

3. When the author visited Reserve 1202, where was the graduate student from who was studying bats?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Argentina.
(c) Chile.
(d) Portugal.

4. How many people lived in Biosphere 2 for two years?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

5. How big was each of Silman's tree plots?
(a) 3 acres.
(b) 2 1/2 acres.
(c) 1 acre.
(d) 3 1/2 acres.

6. How many Sumtran rhinos were born at the Cincinnati Zoo?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

7. How much Denisovan DNA did contemporary New Guineans carry?
(a) About 4 percent.
(b) 1 percent.
(c) Up to 6 percent.
(d) 3 percent.

8. Who was credited with having put the term "biological diversity" into general circulation?
(a) Tom Lovejoy.
(b) Cohn-Haft.
(c) Rita Mesquita.
(d) E. O. Wilson.

9. In the 1970s, how many species of birds were discovered to live on One Tree?
(a) 32.
(b) 15.
(c) 8.
(d) 29.

10. When Cohn-Haft and his colleagues banded birds across the reserve, how many did they band?
(a) 11,000.
(b) 13,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 8,000.

11. How many prey could a colony of army ants on the march consume per day?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 11,000.
(d) 30,000.

12. At BDFFP in Chapter 9, what bird species would cross road clearings?
(a) Yello-tufted woodpecker.
(b) Scale-backed antbirds.
(c) Black-tailed tityra.
(d) White-crowned manakins.

13. In Chapter 11, how close was the nearest eligible male rhino?
(a) 5,000 miles.
(b) 180 miles.
(c) 215 miles.
(d) 10,000 miles.

14. In the 1960s, where did Ralph Solecki uncovered the remains of several Neanderthals in a cave?
(a) Iran.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Egypt.

15. In Chapter 8, how many species of trees did Miles Silman say were in his plots?`
(a) 1,200.
(b) 750.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was served for dinner on the first night of Hanukkah in Chapter 7?

2. If an ocean current flowed about one mile per hours, in six week, how far could a seed be carried?

3. In 1916, how many Japanese beetles were discovered near Riverton, New Jersey?

4. In a cave in Vermont, how many bat corpses piled up on the ground after they were affected by "Geomyces destructans"?

5. In an average day, how many pounds of ficus leaves would Suci eat?

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