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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the state of Lovejoy's plan when Quammen visited the sites with him?

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

3. Who is Bedo?

4. Where did Lovejoy implement his plan?

5. Where do the indri live?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Carl Jones save the Mauritius kestrel?

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

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

7. What factors affected the populations on an island, according to 'An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography'?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the scientific methods used to measure and assess island biogeography. What do we gain by way of insight and understanding? What patterns or trends does the data fail to account for?

Essay Topic 2

Debate the proposition that it is more important to protect an endangered monkey than it might be to protect an endangered snake.

Essay Topic 3

What is the genre of 'The Song of the Dodo'? Is it a travel narrative? Is it primarily a memoir? A book-length article about a scientific field? Is it a scientific treatise?

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