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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Geological Society of America, how much land had people directly transformed?
(a) About 5 million square acres.
(b) About 27 million square miles.
(c) About 35 million square acres.
(d) About 45 million square acres.

2. At the time the author visited BDFFP, how many scientific papers had been written about the area?
(a) About 800.
(b) More than 500.
(c) 612.
(d) 739.

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

4. In Chapter 11, how many species of Rhino did the author say still existed?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

5. How tall did the Arctic willow grow on Ellesmere?
(a) As high as your ankle.
(b) Knee high.
(c) Waist high.
(d) Chest high.

6. Of the world's eight species of bears, how many were categorized as vulnerable to extinction or endangered?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

7. When was a nearly complete Neanderthal skeleton found in a cave in southern France?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1903.

8. By the time it was learned that Sumatran rhinos could not just eat hay, how many were left in U.S. zoos?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 9.

9. How long was the debate about Darwin's theory in his 1842 book "The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs" debated?
(a) Until the mid-1800s.
(b) Until the 1930s.
(c) Until the 1940s.
(d) Until the 1950s.

10. When was it believed that One Tree Island was created?
(a) 3,500 years ago.
(b) 11,000 years ago.
(c) 4,000 years ago.
(d) 7,500 years ago.

11. When did Suci's mother die?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2010.

12. From a single species of tree, how many species of beetles had entomologist Terry Erwin collected?
(a) 789.
(b) 950.
(c) 814.
(d) 1,045.

13. When Cohn-Haft and his colleagues banded birds across the reserve, how many did they band?
(a) 8,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 11,000.
(d) 13,000.

14. If an ocean current flowed about one mile per hours, in six week, how far could a seed be carried?
(a) About 500 miles.
(b) More than 1,000 miles.
(c) 300 miles.
(d) 700 miles.

15. Where did Suci, the Sumatran rhino, live?
(a) Detroit Zoo.
(b) Cincinnati Zoo.
(c) Denver Zoo.
(d) Kansas City Zoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to American naturalists, Carl and Marian Rettenmeyer, how many species did they discover that lived in association with "Eciton burchellii" army ants?

2. At BDFFP in Chapter 9, what bird species would cross road clearings?

3. In Chapter 8, how long had it taken Silman and the author to travel 50 miles?

4. At the time the author wrote Chapter 9, how much of the earth was ice-free?

5. How much could poachers sell rhino horns on the black market?

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