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Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the conclusion Soule and Gilpin came to regarding the Texas question?
(a) The species' population would thrive.
(b) The species' population would be diminished and separated, but remain viable.
(c) The species' population would likely collapse.
(d) The species' population would not escape inbreeding, but would likely survive.

3. What does Quammen say was found to play a role in the minimum viable population?
(a) A species' environment.
(b) A species' typical number of offspring.
(c) A species' genetic history.
(d) A species' breeding habits.

4. What is the literary term for the final chapter?
(a) Epigraph.
(b) Epilogue.
(c) Prologue.
(d) Epigram.

5. What is a sample?
(a) A defined area of a large system.
(b) The list of species in an area.
(c) The data that comes from studying an area, large or small.
(d) The set of interrelationships that govern a particular climate and ecosystem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literary term that describes Quammen's addressing the reader directly?

2. What habitats did researchers have to examine in the Texas case?

3. When did the dodo go extinct?

4. What is an indri?

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

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