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

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

3. What did Wilson show Quammen when the two men visited?
(a) Specimens that had helped Wilson and MacArthur develop their theory.
(b) Letters people had written to Wilson and MacArthur about their theories.
(c) A slide show of how Wilson and MacArthur developed their theory.
(d) Drafts of the papers that defined biogeography.

4. What factors did Simberloff and Abele cite in their challenge to Wilson and MacArthur's hypothesis?
(a) Competition and adaptation.
(b) Size change and relictualism.
(c) Competition dispersal ability and number of species.
(d) Adaptive radiation and endemism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose reactions does Quammen record, in relation to Bedo's death?

2. What does Quammen say Wilson and MacArthur started with, as they developed their theories?

3. What factor did NOT cause the decline of the kestrel population?

4. What is the literary term for the final chapter?

5. How does Quammen's visit to Aru compare with Wallace's?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Quammen's attempt to see an indri.

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

3. What conclusion dis scientists reach in the Texas case?

4. What did Simberloff and Abele propose as a result of their data?

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

6. How does Quammen's argument circle back to its origins in chapter nine, "World in Pieces"?

7. How does Quammen describe Bedo's death?

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

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

10. Why did Quammen choose Aru as the destination for his final chapter?

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