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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Message From Aru.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What factor did NOT cause the decline of the kestrel population?
(a) Insecticides.
(b) Feather collectors.
(c) Predators eating the kestrel eggs.
(d) Habitat loss.

2. What was Carl Jones trying to rescue in Mauritius?
(a) A crab.
(b) A macaque.
(c) A kestrel.
(d) A komodo dragon.

3. How many pieces does Quammen ask the reader to imagine the rug being cut into?
(a) 144.
(b) 12.
(c) 36.
(d) 6.

4. Where did Lovejoy implement his plan?
(a) In Brazil.
(b) In India.
(c) In Argentina.
(d) In the U.S.

5. Why is Krakatau scientifically important?
(a) It is an exception to most rules of population dispersal.
(b) It is just being populated now.
(c) It is a controlled experiment.
(d) It is so isolated.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did humans hurt the dodo population directly?

2. What does Quammen describe about Bedo?

3. How was the case of the muriqui different from the case of the Mauritius kestrel?

4. What point does Quammen make by describing his sighting of the species he sought on Aru?

5. How did Wilson and MacArthur test their theory about recolonization?

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