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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. By the early 1980s, how low was the population of Sumatran rhinos?
(a) Several thousand.
(b) 432.
(c) 689.
(d) A few hundred.

2. In 1984 when conservationists gathered in Singapore to work out a Sumatran rhino rescue strategy, how many rhinos were caught for a captive breeding program?
(a) 40.
(b) 12.
(c) 35.
(d) 17.

3. In Chapter 8, how long had it taken Silman and the author to travel 50 miles?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) About a half a day.
(c) All day.
(d) 2 hours.

4. What cyclone added a ridge on One Tree Island in March 2009?
(a) Jose.
(b) Rina.
(c) Arlene.
(d) Hamish.

5. How much did it cost to feed Suci ficus leaves a year?
(a) Nearly $100,000.
(b) $75,000.
(c) $85,000.
(d) About $50,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ken Caldeira do before becoming an atmospheric scientists?

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

3. When was the best time to take a bat census?

4. When was the last known Javan rhino in Vietnam killed?

5. How much Neanderthal DNA did all non-Africans carry according to Paabo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the hobbits?

2. What was the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project?

3. Why did Suci get an ultrasound in Chapter 11?

4. What was one bird species Cohn-Haft discovered through rigorous listening?

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

6. In the 1950s, what led William Straus and Alexander Cave to believe that Neanderthals walked upright?

7. What was the Frozen Zoo?

8. Why did the Sumatran rhino species nearly become extinct?

9. Where did coral reefs grow?

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

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