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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. On the Great Barrier Reef, how large were the sea cucumbers?
(a) Size of bolster cushions.
(b) Size of cucumbers.
(c) Size of a swim tube.
(d) Size of a children's table.

2. For his genome project, how many bones was Paaba able to obtain?
(a) 14.
(b) 11.
(c) 9.
(d) 21.

3. What did Ken Caldeira do before becoming an atmospheric scientists?
(a) School teacher.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Software developer.
(d) Physician.

4. In a cave in Vermont, how many bat corpses piled up on the ground after they were affected by "Geomyces destructans"?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) 450.
(c) Thousands.
(d) 350.

5. At the time the author wrote Chapter 9, how much of the earth was ice-free?
(a) 25 million square miles.
(b) 75 million square miles.
(c) 50 million square miles.
(d) 45 million square miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many miles separated Galapagos from the coast of South America?

2. What was Suci given while she had an ultrasound?

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

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

5. In Chapter 11, how close was the nearest eligible male rhino?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Cohn-Haft's job when he first worked at Reserve 1202?

2. Where and when were the first Neanderthal bones discovered?

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

4. How did the author describe the forest as they descended to Silman's tree plots in Chapter 8?

5. How had the road BR-174 changed over the years?

6. What was Biosphere 2?

7. What did Suci eat at the zoo?

8. What happened when bats hibernated?

9. How did the author describe One Tree Island?

10. What were the hobbits?

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