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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. In 2004, how many black-faced honeycreepers probably existed?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

2. By the early 1980s, how low was the population of Sumatran rhinos?
(a) 689.
(b) A few hundred.
(c) Several thousand.
(d) 432.

3. In Chapter 11, how many Javan rhinos were believed to be left?
(a) 16.
(b) Less than 50.
(c) About 30.
(d) 22.

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

5. At BDFFP in Chapter 9, what bird species would cross road clearings?
(a) Scale-backed antbirds.
(b) White-crowned manakins.
(c) Black-tailed tityra.
(d) Yello-tufted woodpecker.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1835, where did Darwin view a coral reef?

3. Where was Bardsey Island located?

4. In Chapter 7, by what percent did a study by Australian researchers find that the Great Barrier Reef had declined in the last thirty years?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was the first European to encounter the Great Barrier Reef, and how did he come across it?

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

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

5. Why did Cohn-Haft believe that there were more species of birds in the Amazon than thirteen hundred?

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

7. How did army ants differ from most other ants?

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

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

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

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