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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 does Quammen's visit to Aru compare with Wallace's?
(a) It pales in comparison.
(b) It inspires another revolutionary concept about evolution.
(c) It creates another new field of scientific inquiry.
(d) It provides a closing chapter to something Wallace began in the nineteenth century.

2. What does Quammen believe happened to Bedo?
(a) He made people uncomfortable being around white people a lot of the time.
(b) He made people jealous with the money he was making as a guide.
(c) He made enemies among the hunters.
(d) He made people angry by raising consciousness as he talked with people from many different walks of life.

3. What was the state of Lovejoy's plan when Quammen visited the sites with him?
(a) No conclusions had been reached.
(b) Lovejoy had determined to make nature reserves as large as possible.
(c) Lovejoy had determined the ideal number of acres for a nature reserve.
(d) Lovejoy had determined to make many small reserves in an area, allowing development.

4. What does Quammen say is distinctive about the indri?
(a) Its fur.
(b) Its method of reproducing.
(c) Its diet.
(d) Its cry.

5. When was the concept of the minimum viable population introduced?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1988.

Short Answer Questions

1. What national disaster destroyed kestrel habitat in Mauritius?

2. What human actions make island biogeography applicable in this new location?

3. What environment is NOT analogous to an island, according to Quammen?

4. Where do the indri live?

5. What does Quammen describe about Bedo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What factors affected the populations on an island, according to 'An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography'?

2. What did Lovejoy find in his studies on this question?

3. How do genetics play a role in the minimum viable population?

4. Describe Quammen's attempt to see an indri.

5. What is Quammen doing at the end of the book?

6. What does Quammen say about applying the case of the Mauritius kestrel to other species?

7. What did Simberloff and Abele propose as a result of their data?

8. What conclusion dis scientists reach in the Texas case?

9. How does Quammen's argument circle back to its origins in chapter nine, "World in Pieces"?

10. How did Carl Jones save the Mauritius kestrel?

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