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

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

3. Why were people cutting down the forests in the place where Lovejoy implemented his plan?
(a) To build cities.
(b) To mine resources.
(c) To make rangeland.
(d) To make wildlife extinct.

4. What species did Quammen search for at Aru?
(a) Bird of Paradise.
(b) Kingbill.
(c) Muriqui.
(d) Green heron.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a minimum viable population?

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

3. What did Lawrence Abele find in his studies?

4. How did Quammen get to Aru?

5. What was going to happen to the species' habitat as the Texas plan was implemented?

Short Essay Questions

1. What note does Quammen end 'The Song of the Dodo' on?

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

3. What did Lovejoy find in his studies on this question?

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

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

6. What is the concept of the minimum viable population?

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

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

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

10. What was Quammen looking for at Aru?

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