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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Bedo's reputation?
(a) An indispensable help.
(b) A nuisance.
(c) A ladies man.
(d) A gadfly.

2. How did Quammen make his way to this site?
(a) By descending into a cave.
(b) By ascending a rope.
(c) By boat.
(d) On foot.

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

4. How was the case of the muriqui different from the case of the Mauritius kestrel?
(a) The muriqui was not an island species.
(b) The muriqui was a mammal, and did not reach sexual maturity until its third year.
(c) The muriqui lived in forests that were valuable for their hardwoods.
(d) The muriqui had much smaller batches of offspring.

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

6. What does Quammen say Wilson and MacArthur started with, as they developed their theories?
(a) Preston's species-area relationship.
(b) Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest.
(c) Darwin's theory of adaptation.
(d) Data from Krakatau.

7. What did Wilson and MacArthur postulate according to Quammen?
(a) That extinction was a regular event on islands.
(b) That once an island developed a full range of species, extinction was rare.
(c) That extinction only began when began to travel to new islands.
(d) That extinctions followed a predictable timeline following colonization.

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

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

10. How long did Wilson and MacArthur predict it would take for species to reach equilibrium on Krakatau?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 75 years.
(c) 100 years.
(d) 50 years.

11. How many indri are living in the forests Quammen visited?
(a) Thousands.
(b) No one knows.
(c) Tens.
(d) Hundreds.

12. How was the minimum viable population theory applied in Texas?
(a) Officials wanted to determine how much development could take place without damaging the viability of a species of water bird.
(b) Officials wanted to know how many invasive fish they would have to kill off to collapse the population.
(c) Officials wanted to create an open season for hunting mountain lions.
(d) Officials wanted to know if a dam would destroy too much habitat for an endangered snake.

13. Who had performed research in Aru?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Gould.
(c) Wallace.
(d) Wilson.

14. What theory came from the research that had been performed in Aru?
(a) Natural selection.
(b) Social Darwinism.
(c) Survival of the fittest.
(d) Island biogeography.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Quammen told to find, in order to observe this species?

3. What did Wilson and MacArthur say about the immigration of new species in an island ecosystem?

4. When did Wilson and MacArthur publish 'An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography'?

5. What incident does Quammen relate at the end of chapter nine, "World in Pieces"?

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