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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 the 1970s, how many species of birds were discovered to live on One Tree?
(a) 32.
(b) 8.
(c) 15.
(d) 29.

2. During the statary phase when ants stay mostly in one place to raise a new generation, how long might the ants stay put?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 3 weeks.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 2 months.

3. How many tree plots had Silman established to study climate change in the tropics?
(a) 8.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 6.

4. At the time the author wrote Chapter 9, how much of the earth was ice-free?
(a) 25 million square miles.
(b) 50 million square miles.
(c) 75 million square miles.
(d) 45 million square miles.

5. What was served for dinner on the first night of Hanukkah in Chapter 7?
(a) Beef.
(b) Pig.
(c) Kangaroo meat.
(d) Lamb.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How far was it to walk from the research station on One Tree to DK-13?

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

4. By the time it was learned that Sumatran rhinos could not just eat hay, how many were left in U.S. zoos?

5. When was the best time to take a bat census?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What were the hobbits?

5. What did Suci eat at the zoo?

6. Why did the Sumatran rhino species nearly become extinct?

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

8. What happened when bats hibernated?

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

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

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