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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 many trees did the author believe were growing on One Tree?
(a) 1.
(b) 250.
(c) 500.
(d) 5.

2. When did Paabo announce his project to sequence the entire Neanderthal genome?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2006.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2008.

3. In a cave in Vermont, how many bat corpses piled up on the ground after they were affected by "Geomyces destructans"?
(a) 450.
(b) 350.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Thousands.

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

5. How much did it cost to feed Suci ficus leaves a year?
(a) $75,000.
(b) Nearly $100,000.
(c) $85,000.
(d) About $50,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was the debate about Darwin's theory in his 1842 book "The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs" debated?

2. In the northeastern United States, which bats were the first to go into hibernation?

3. What was Suci given while she had an ultrasound?

4. How tall did the Arctic willow grow on Ellesmere?

5. Where did Suci, the Sumatran rhino, live?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How had the road BR-174 changed over the years?

4. What was Biosphere 2?

5. In the 1950s, what led William Straus and Alexander Cave to believe that Neanderthals walked upright?

6. What was the Frozen Zoo?

7. How did the author decide to go to One Tree?

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

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

10. What did Suci eat at the zoo?

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