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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Song of the Indri.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many individuals were thought to be necessary to prevent harmful inbreeding?
(a) 50.
(b) 500.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 200.

2. What is a minimum viable population?
(a) The minimum number of offspring that need to be born in each brood to sustain the population.
(b) The minimum number of acres necessary to preserve a population.
(c) The number of individuals necessary to sustain a population.
(d) The minimum rate of increase to preserve the genetic health of a population.

3. What does a species have if it has high dispersal ability?
(a) The ability to withstand great environmental changes.
(b) The ability to adapt to new environmental conditions.
(c) The ability to move from place to place.
(d) The ability to change their environment to suit their own traits.

4. Which scientist compared animals on islands with their counterparts on larger landmasses?
(a) Quammen.
(b) Wallace.
(c) Foster.
(d) Darwin.

5. How would you describe Quammen's style?
(a) Patient and thorough.
(b) Disjointed.
(c) Linear.
(d) Pedantic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Philip Darlington?

2. What is the difference between an isolate and a sample?

3. How many species of the animal Philip Darlington studied did an island of four square miles possess?

4. What does Quammen interject into his historical narrative about ecosystem studies?

5. What does Quammen believe happened to Bedo?

(see the answer key)

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