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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 make wildlife extinct.
(d) To mine resources.

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

6. When did the Mauritius kestrel population begin to decline?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1990s.

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

8. Whose reactions does Quammen record, in relation to Bedo's death?
(a) Hunters.
(b) Villagers.
(c) Poachers.
(d) Scientists.

9. What condition would help a species breed out harmful genes?
(a) Isolation.
(b) Widespread breeding.
(c) Inbreeding.
(d) Exposure to many similar species.

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

11. What did this species do in the location where Quammen was told to look for them?
(a) Hibernated.
(b) Migrated.
(c) Mated.
(d) Fed.

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

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

14. When did Wilson and MacArthur publish 'An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography'?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1998.

15. What data does William Newmark look at in his studies?
(a) Fisheries census.
(b) Bird sightings in U.S. migrations.
(c) Species census in U.S. natural reserves.
(d) Wildlife sightings in natural parks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Quammen say increases as individuals breed with genetically similar individuals?

2. What was the state of the muriqui population when Quammen visited Karen Strier?

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

4. What had happened to the smaller reserves in Lovejoy's plan?

5. What was Lovejoy's response to the questions Simberloff and Abele raised?

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