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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. What was the species Quammen sought called by locals?
(a) Ranuren.
(b) Majib.
(c) Cenderwasih.
(d) Mistoquot.

2. What was Lovejoy's response to the questions Simberloff and Abele raised?
(a) He created smaller nature reserves.
(b) He designed a controlled experiment of his own.
(c) He created larger nature reserves.
(d) He tried to keep nature reserves close to one another.

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

4. What would Carl Jones feed to the wild Mauritius kestrels?
(a) Rats.
(b) Mice.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Bread.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Quammen say is distinctive about the indri?

2. What did this species do in the location where Quammen was told to look for them?

3. When did Wilson and MacArthur publish 'An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography'?

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

5. What data does William Newmark look at in his studies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did MacArthur and Wilson argue in 'An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography'?

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

3. How does Quammen describe the indri?

4. Who was Thomas Lovejoy, and what was his reaction to the debate Simberloff and Abele began?

5. What was Quammen looking for at Aru?

6. How did Quammen get to Aru?

7. How do genetics play a role in the minimum viable population?

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

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

10. What experiment took place in the Florida Keys?

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