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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Song of the Indri.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do scientists relate data from samples and isolates to larger areas?
(a) Prediction.
(b) Interpolation.
(c) Speculation.
(d) Extrapolation.

2. What were the first plants to arrive after the eruption of Krakatau?
(a) Grasses.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) Lichens.
(d) Mosses and ferns.

3. When did Krakatau erupt?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1721.

4. What is a minimum viable population?
(a) The minimum rate of increase to preserve the genetic health of a population.
(b) The minimum number of acres necessary to preserve a population.
(c) The number of individuals necessary to sustain a population.
(d) The minimum number of offspring that need to be born in each brood to sustain the population.

5. What did Philip Darlington propose?
(a) A set of formula that measure biodiversity.
(b) A set of exceptions to this rule.
(c) A mathematical ratio between island area and number of species.
(d) A correction that makes this rule broadly applicable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a species have if it has high dispersal ability?

2. What does Quammen describe about Bedo?

3. How does Quammen describe the indri?

4. What did Frank Preston say made up the majority of species in any ecosystem?

5. Where do the indri live?

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