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

2. How long had BR-174 been paved in Chapter 9?
(a) About 20 years ago.
(b) 17 years ago.
(c) Around 15 years ago.
(d) 12 years ago.

3. When an Australian researcher broke apart a volleyball-sized chunk of coral, how many polychaete worms did he find?
(a) More than 1,400.
(b) 103.
(c) About 1,000.
(d) 580.

4. On the Great Barrier Reef, how large were the sea cucumbers?
(a) Size of a children's table.
(b) Size of cucumbers.
(c) Size of bolster cushions.
(d) Size of a swim tube.

5. When was the best time to hear birds in the Amazon?
(a) Dusk.
(b) Before dawn.
(c) Around dusk.
(d) Dawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Paabo announce his project to sequence the entire Neanderthal genome?

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

3. How many trees did the author believe were growing on One Tree?

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

5. In Chapter 11, how many species of Rhino did the author say still existed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the author describe One Tree Island?

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

3. How did tree diversity vary around the world?

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

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

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

7. What did Suci eat at the zoo?

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

9. Where did coral reefs grow?

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

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