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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 much could poachers sell rhino horns on the black market?
(a) More than $20,000 a pound.
(b) About $15,000 a pound.
(c) $11,000 a pound.
(d) $31,000 a pound.

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

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

4. How many people lived in Biosphere 2 for two years?
(a) 4.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

5. How far was it to walk from the research station on One Tree to DK-13?
(a) 1/2 mile.
(b) About a mile.
(c) 1/4 mile.
(d) About 1 1/2 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time the author visited BDFFP, how many scientific papers had been written about the area?

2. By the early 1980s, how low was the population of Sumatran rhinos?

3. When was the best time to hear birds in the Amazon?

4. When was it believed that One Tree Island was created?

5. How many prey could a colony of army ants on the march consume per day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the author describe the forest as they descended to Silman's tree plots in Chapter 8?

2. What were the hobbits?

3. What did Suci eat at the zoo?

4. What are some theories for why the alala became extinct in the wild?

5. What did the One Tree Island Research Station consist of?

6. Where had Neanderthal bones been discovered after they were first discovered in Germany?

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

8. How did the author describe One Tree Island?

9. What happened when bats hibernated?

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

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