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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Thomas Lovejoy?
(a) Director of National Parks in the U.S.
(b) Director of the World Wildlife Fund.
(c) Director of conservation in the U.S. government.
(d) Director of the Sierra Club.

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

3. What had happened to the smaller reserves in Lovejoy's plan?
(a) They unraveled quickly.
(b) They swelled with species.
(c) They arrived at an equilibrium with a higher density than some larger reserves.
(d) They took longer to arrive at an equilibrium of species.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a minimum viable population?

2. Who is Bedo?

3. What is the central message of Quammen's book?

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

5. What did Wilson and MacArthur postulate according to Quammen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Quammen looking for at Aru?

2. How is the case of the muriqui different from the case of the Mauritius kestrel?

3. What theory did Simberloff and Abele challenge in a 1976 article?

4. What was the practical example of species management Quammen cited from Texas?

5. How did Carl Jones save the Mauritius kestrel?

6. What does Quammen say about applying the case of the Mauritius kestrel to other species?

7. What was the effect of 'An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography', according to Quammen?

8. What did people argue over in the wake of Simberloff and Abele's 1976 article?

9. What data did Simberloff and Abele deploy in challenging this theory?

10. What is Quammen doing at the end of the book?

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