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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 tree plots had Silman established to study climate change in the tropics?
(a) 15.
(b) 8.
(c) 17.
(d) 6.

2. In Chapter 11, how many Javan rhinos were believed to be left?
(a) Less than 50.
(b) 22.
(c) 16.
(d) About 30.

3. How many species of native trees were found in Vermont?
(a) 25.
(b) 45.
(c) 50.
(d) 30.

4. How much could poachers sell rhino horns on the black market?
(a) More than $20,000 a pound.
(b) About $15,000 a pound.
(c) $31,000 a pound.
(d) $11,000 a pound.

5. What was the gestation period for a Sumatran rhino?
(a) 16 months.
(b) 14 months.
(c) 11 months.
(d) 12 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Suci, the Sumatran rhino, live?

2. Who was credited with having put the term "biological diversity" into general circulation?

3. At the time the author visited BDFFP, how many scientific papers had been written about the area?

4. How tall did the Arctic willow grow on Ellesmere?

5. In Chapter 8, how long had it taken Silman and the author to travel 50 miles?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was the first European to encounter the Great Barrier Reef, and how did he come across it?

2. Why did Cohn-Haft believe that there were more species of birds in the Amazon than thirteen hundred?

3. As early as the 1840s what explanations had been proposed for the megafauna extinction?

4. What was the white powder found on bats and that seemed to be killing them?

5. How were Silman's tree plots laid out?

6. Where did coral reefs grow?

7. What did the One Tree Island Research Station consist of?

8. How did tree diversity vary around the world?

9. What was the Frozen Zoo?

10. What were the hobbits?

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