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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. What condition would help a species breed out harmful genes?
(a) Exposure to many similar species.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Inbreeding.
(d) Widespread breeding.

2. What traits did sailors notice in animals on remote islands?
(a) They were more varied than species on land.
(b) They adapted more quickly to environmental changes than animals on larger land masses.
(c) They were unafraid of humans, and thus easy prey.
(d) They were smaller and harder to observe than their counterparts on land.

3. What does Lawrence Abele study?
(a) Birds.
(b) Tasmanian tigers.
(c) Komodo dragons.
(d) Coral.

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

5. What does Quammen say increases as individuals breed with genetically similar individuals?
(a) Hostility in breeding.
(b) Congenital flaws.
(c) Anxiety and reproductive complications.
(d) Birth defects.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Quammen describe the indri?

2. When does a species' dispersal ability become important, according to Quammen?

3. What did Philip Darlington propose?

4. Where is Krakatau?

5. How many indri are living in the forests Quammen visited?

(see the answer key)

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