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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 if a dam would destroy too much habitat for an endangered snake.
(c) Officials wanted to know how many invasive fish they would have to kill off to collapse the population.
(d) Officials wanted to create an open season for hunting mountain lions.

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

3. What environment is NOT analogous to an island, according to Quammen?
(a) Lake.
(b) Cave.
(c) Mountaintop.
(d) Savannah.

4. What was the consequence of the Simberloff and Abele article?
(a) A shift to a new theory about speciation.
(b) A return to the old paradigm of large reserves holding more species.
(c) A raging debate about theory.
(d) A chaos as scientists didn't know which theory to believe.

5. What is the tone of the final chapter?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Dire.
(c) Portentous.
(d) Foreboding.

6. What was going to happen to the species' habitat as the Texas plan was implemented?
(a) Habitat was going to be divided.
(b) Habitat was going to be paved over.
(c) Habitat was going to be conserved at the edge of a development.
(d) Habitat was going to be conserved but with development on three sides.

7. Which theory is Quammen supporting when he cites the work of William Newmark?
(a) The single large reserve model.
(b) The keep reserves close together model.
(c) The many small reserves model.
(d) The keep reserves apart model.

8. How does Quammen describe the indri?
(a) Extroverted.
(b) Impulsive.
(c) Reclusive.
(d) Amicable.

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

10. How many species did Wilson and MacArthur predict would establish an equilibrium in Krakatau?
(a) 250.
(b) 500.
(c) 50.
(d) 30.

11. What was the state of Lovejoy's plan when Quammen visited the sites with him?
(a) Lovejoy had determined the ideal number of acres for a nature reserve.
(b) No conclusions had been reached.
(c) Lovejoy had determined to make many small reserves in an area, allowing development.
(d) Lovejoy had determined to make nature reserves as large as possible.

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

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

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

15. How did Carl Jones protect the Mauritius kestrels when their population began to recover?
(a) Breeding the species that provide food for the kestrel.
(b) Domesticating the kestrels.
(c) Killing other birds that would compete for food.
(d) Trapping kestrel predators.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Wilson show Quammen when the two men visited?

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

3. What national disaster destroyed kestrel habitat in Mauritius?

4. What species did Quammen search for at Aru?

5. How many Mauritius kestrels were still in existence at the species' lowest point?

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