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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Quammen get to Aru?
(a) By canoe.
(b) Tourist cruise to native transportation.
(c) Float plane.
(d) By foot.

2. What observation did Wilson make to Quammen?
(a) That species diversity declined in islands in the southern hemisphere.
(b) That islands with caves had the greatest biodiversity.
(c) That taller islands had more species.
(d) That fewer species were found on more remote islands.

3. How did Wilson and MacArthur test their theory about recolonization?
(a) By returning year after year to a small island off Tasmania.
(b) By studying data from the ancient city of Atlantis.
(c) By studying new volcanic islands in the South Seas.
(d) By fumigating an island in the Florida Keys.

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

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

6. How did the data from Krakatau match Wilson and MacArthur's predictions?
(a) Hardly.
(b) Roughly.
(c) Not at all.
(d) Closely.

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

8. How many individuals were thought to be necessary to prevent harmful inbreeding?
(a) 50.
(b) 500.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 200.

9. 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.

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

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

12. What habitats did researchers have to examine in the Texas case?
(a) Hillsides for burrows.
(b) Wetlands.
(c) Riffles.
(d) Deep sections in the water.

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

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

15. How does Quammen describe Aru?
(a) Isolated.
(b) Interconnected.
(c) Urban.
(d)

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Quammen describe about Bedo?

2. What did Lawrence Abele find in his studies?

3. What objection did Simberloff and Abele raise?

4. What was Thomas Lovejoy's interest in the debate about the size of reserves and the number of species they support?

5. What did Wilson and MacArthur argue influenced the number of species on an island?

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