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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Lovejoy's strategy in his plan?
(a) To diminish the size of nature reserves and track the number of species over time.
(b) Count the number of species in rainforest islands.
(c) To exterminate all animals in an area and study how the area was repopulated.
(d) To import animals into nature reserves.

2. What would Carl Jones feed to the wild Mauritius kestrels?
(a) Bread.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Mice.
(d) Rats.

3. Why were people cutting down the forests in the place where Lovejoy implemented his plan?
(a) To make rangeland.
(b) To build cities.
(c) To mine resources.
(d) To make wildlife extinct.

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

5. What risky move did Carl Jones make to save the Mauritius kestrel?
(a) Taking Mauritius kestrel DNA into a laboratory, and trying to inject into other birds' eggs.
(b) Incubating wild eggs in his lab.
(c) Trying to crossbreed Mauritius kestrels with North American kestrels.
(d) Placing Mauritius kestrel eggs in other birds' nests.

6. Where do the indri live?
(a) Madagascar.
(b) Tasmania.
(c) Sri Lanka.
(d) Hawaii.

7. Who is Bedo?
(a) Someone Quammen met in the hotel.
(b) An indri researcher.
(c) Quammen's guide.
(d) A local hunter.

8. What does Quammen believe happened to Bedo?
(a) He made people uncomfortable being around white people a lot of the time.
(b) He made enemies among the hunters.
(c) He made people angry by raising consciousness as he talked with people from many different walks of life.
(d) He made people jealous with the money he was making as a guide.

9. What was Thomas Lovejoy's interest in the debate about the size of reserves and the number of species they support?
(a) He was in charge of determining whether species were endangered.
(b) He was in charge of setting conservation policy.
(c) He was in charge of creating natural reserves.
(d) He was in charge of government policy on forestry.

10. According to Jared Diamond, a nature reserve has to have what characteristics, in order to support a large number of species?
(a) Far away from human habitation.
(b) Large and near other reserves.
(c) On an island.
(d) Close to agricultural land.

11. What human actions make island biogeography applicable in this new location?
(a) Division of ecosystems.
(b) Suburban sprawl.
(c) Development of reservoirs for water supplies.
(d) Expansion of cities.

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

13. What did Wilson and MacArthur say about the immigration of new species in an island ecosystem?
(a) That it typically only followed natural disasters like volcanoes erupting.
(b) That it was a regular occurrence.
(c) That it depended on the defenses of the species already there. That it depended on external events and compatibility of food sources.
(d) That it depended on external events and compatibility of food sources.

14. What national disaster destroyed kestrel habitat in Mauritius?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A tsunami.
(c) A tornado.
(d) A cyclone.

15. What does Quammen say about Wilson and Macarthur's 'The Theory of Island Biogeography'?
(a) It was doubted at the time it was published.
(b) Its effect was not felt for years.
(c) It was a book that changed things.
(d) It was practically unnoticed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Quammen get to Aru?

2. What does Quammen say Wilson and MacArthur started with, as they developed their theories?

3. What was going to happen to the species' habitat as the Texas plan was implemented?

4. How did Carl Jones protect the Mauritius kestrels when their population began to recover?

5. What data does William Newmark look at in his studies?

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