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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 big was One Tree Island?
(a) 800 x 200 feet.
(b) 700 by 300 feet.
(c) 600 x 400 feet.
(d) 750 by 150 feet.

2. How many different species might be involved in building a coral reef?
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 35.
(d) 500.

3. How many species new to science had Silman and his students found?
(a) 10.
(b) 25.
(c) 15.
(d) 30.

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

5. According to American naturalists, Carl and Marian Rettenmeyer, how many species did they discover that lived in association with "Eciton burchellii" army ants?
(a) 50.
(b) 250.
(c) 300.
(d) 80.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Sumtran rhinos were born at the Cincinnati Zoo?

2. In Chapter 11, how close was the nearest eligible male rhino?

3. What did Suci weigh at birth?

4. In the 1970s, how many species of birds were discovered to live on One Tree?

5. How much Denisovan DNA did contemporary New Guineans carry?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Terry Erwin count beetles in the late 1970s?

2. Where and when were the first Neanderthal bones discovered?

3. What was Cohn-Haft's job when he first worked at Reserve 1202?

4. What did Suci eat at the zoo?

5. How were Silman's tree plots laid out?

6. What was one bird species Cohn-Haft discovered through rigorous listening?

7. What was the white powder found on bats and that seemed to be killing them?

8. How did the author describe One Tree Island?

9. Why did Suci get an ultrasound in Chapter 11?

10. What was the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project?

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