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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through World in Pieces.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Thomas Lovejoy?
(a) Director of conservation in the U.S. government.
(b) Director of the Sierra Club.
(c) Director of the World Wildlife Fund.
(d) Director of National Parks in the U.S.

2. What is the Guam rail?
(a) A marsupial.
(b) A bird.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A dog.

3. What did Wilson and MacArthur say about the immigration of new species in an island ecosystem?
(a) That it depended on the defenses of the species already there. That it depended on external events and compatibility of food sources.
(b) That it depended on external events and compatibility of food sources.
(c) That it typically only followed natural disasters like volcanoes erupting.
(d) That it was a regular occurrence.

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

5. What does Quammen say increases as individuals breed with genetically similar individuals?
(a) Anxiety and reproductive complications.
(b) Hostility in breeding.
(c) Birth defects.
(d) Congenital flaws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were theories of species evolution based on in Wallace's time?

2. Who was Truganini?

3. What habitats did researchers have to examine in the Texas case?

4. When did the dodo go extinct?

5. What function does the first chapter serve?

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