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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IX-X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to an old ballad, who was pushed over a precipice at Dob's Linn?
(a) A false lover.
(b) A small boy.
(c) Shepherd.
(d) Devil.

2. How many species of army ants were found in the tropics?
(a) Dozens.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) 50-60.
(d) 45-50.

3. How many species of primates could be found in the area of the BDFFP project?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

4. Where were the paleontologists from who published a study revealing not only the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser events?
(a) University of Montana.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) University of Colorado.

5. Who was credited with having put the term "biological diversity" into general circulation?
(a) Rita Mesquita.
(b) Tom Lovejoy.
(c) Cohn-Haft.
(d) E. O. Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of frog can live in the Australian desert?

2. When the author visited Reserve 1202, where was the graduate student from who was studying bats?

3. How much did Icelanders pay in 1971 to buy the auk back?

4. How many people lived in Biosphere 2 for two years?

5. How many species of gastric-brooding frogs went extinct recently?

(see the answer key)

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