Take This Endangered Species Quiz

Take This Endangered Species Quiz How much do you know about endangered species? Test your knowledge with this quiz. Answers can be found at the bottom of the page.   1. An endangered species is _____________ that will become extinct if its populations continue to decline. a. any species of animal b. any species of plant c. any species of animal, plant, or other living organism d. none of the above 2. What percentage of the species listed as endangered or threatened by extinction have been saved by conservation initiatives resulting from the Endangered Species Act? a. 100% b. 99% c. 65.2% d. 25% 3. In what ways do zoos help endangered animals? a. They educate people about endangered animals. b. Zoo scientists study endangered animals. c. They establish captive breeding programs for endangered species. d. All of the above 4. Due to the success of recovery efforts under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, what animal is being taken off the endangered species list in the United States in 2013? a. gray wolf b. bald eagle c. black-footed ferret d. raccoon 5. In what ways do people try to save rhinos? a. fencing rhinos into protected areas b. cutting off their horns c. providing armed guards to ward off poachers d. all of the above 6. In what U.S. state are half of the worlds bald eagles found? a. Alaska b. Texas c. California d. Wisconsin 7. Why are rhinos poached? a. for their eyes b. for their nails c. for their horns d. for their hair 8. What did whooping cranes follow from Wisconsin to Florida in a simulated migration? a. an octopus b. a boat c. a plane d. a bus 9. Just one plant may provide food and/or shelter to more than how many species of animals? a. 30 species b. 1 species c. 10 species d. none 10. What once-endangered animal is the national symbol of the United States? a. grizzly bear b. Florida panther c. bald eagle d. timber wolf 11. What are the greatest threats facing endangered species? a. habitat destruction b. illegal hunting c. introducing new species that can cause problems d. all of the above 12. How many species have disappeared in the last 500 years? a. 3,200 b. 1,250 c. 816 d. 362 13. The Sumatran Rhinos total population is estimated at: a. under 80 b. 250-400 c. 600- 1,000 d. 2,500- 3,000 14. As of October 2000, how many plants and animals in the United States were listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act? a. 1,623 b. 852 c. 1,792 d. 1,025 15. All of the following species have gone extinct except the: a. California condor b. dusky seaside sparrow c. dodo d. passenger pigeon 16. How can you help protect endangered animals from extinction? a. reduce, recycle, and reuse b. protect natural habitats c. landscape with native plants d. all of the above 17. Which member of the cat family is endangered? a. the bobcat b. the Siberian tiger c. the domestic tabby d. the North American cougar 18. The Endangered Species Act was created to ___________? a. make people like animals b. make animals easier to hunt c. protect plants and animals that are at risk of becoming extinct d. none of the above 19. Of the 44,838 species that have been studied by scientists, about what percentage is threatened with extinction? a. 38% b. 89% c. 2% d. 15% 20. Nearly ________ percent of mammal species are globally threatened with extinction? a. 25 b. 3 c. 65 d. none of the above Answers: c. Any species of animal, plant, or other living organismb. 99%d. All of the abovea. gray wolfd. all of the abovea. Alaskac. for their hornsc. a planea. 30 speciesc. bald eagled. all of the abovec. 816a. under 80c. 1,792a. California condord. all of the aboveb. the Siberian tigerc. protect plants and animals that are at risk of becoming extincta. 38%a. 25%

Quotes from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Quotes from 'Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Brave New World deals with issues of technological advancements, sexuality, and individualityin a dehumanizing society. Huxley explores how his characters react to living in a dystopian future society, in which everyone’s place in society is strictly defined. Here are a few quotes from the novel.   Our world is not the same as  Othellos  world. You cant make flivvers without steel- and you cant make tragedies without social instability. The worlds stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they cant get.† (ch. 16) With these words which Mustapha Mond speaks to John, in a philosophical-debate-like fashion, he details why Shakespeare is obsolete in the World State. Being a highly educated man, he admits to them being beautiful, but his words are old, and, thus, unfit for a society that is primarily oriented to consumerism. What’s more, he belittles John for using Shakespeare as  a paradigm of values and ethics, because Shakespeare’s world is very different from the World State. His was a world subjected to turmoil and instability, while the World State is essentially stable, which, in turn, is not a fertile ground for tragedies.   Quotes about Love and Sex â€Å"Whore! he shouted Whore! Impudent strumpet!† (Ch. 13) John yells these words at Lenina as she gets naked in front of him. Citing his beloved Shakespeare, he addresses her as a â€Å"disrespectful whore.† It’s a line coming from Othello, where the titular character is about to kill his wife Desdemona as he became convinced she had been cheating on him. Both instances of the use â€Å"impudent strumpet,† are misdirected, though: Desdemona was faithful all along, while Lenina had been sleeping around because the society she was raised in conditioned her to do so. Both Othello and John see their love interest as both sleazy and beautiful, which disturbs John, since he is not able to compute feelings of repulsion and attraction at the same time. In fact, such contrasting feelings eventually lead him to madness and death. Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty- they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable? (Chapter 3) In Chapter 3, Mustapha Mond explains the history of the World State to a group of boys touring the Hatchery. â€Å"Mother, monogamy, and romance† are concepts that are reviled in the World State, as is the whole idea of â€Å"feeling strongly,† and they are the core values of John, who is devoted to his mother, strives for monogamy and romance while still experiencing feelings unfiltered by soma. However, eventually, abiding by those feelings causes him to try to purify himself with self-flagellation, which, in an unfortunate turn of events, leads to his madness and to his suicide. His demise does, indirectly, prove Mustapha Mond’s point, as, by eliminating â€Å"mother, monogamy, and romance† alongside â€Å"feeling strongly,† the World State succeeded in creating a stabile society where everybody was, indeed, superficially happy. Sure, human beings are indoctrinated to behave in one way and one way only according to their caste, and the whole Stat e is a system founded on production and consumptions, fueled by the consumeristic tendencies of its inhabitants. However, they are happy. They just need to drink soma and choose merriment over truth. A good trade-off. Politics â€Å"When the individual feels, the community reels† (various locations) This is a Society’s teaching of the World State, which goes hand in hand with â€Å"never put of till tomorrow the fun you can have today.† Lenina pronounces it to Bernard after they had spent a night together in his rooms, which he regretted, saying he wished it had ended differently, especially considering it was their first day together. She claims it’s pointless to put off having any fun, while he wants to â€Å"feel something strongly,† which is largely discouraged in the world state, as feelings can overthrow any form of stability. Yet, Bernard yearns for some reeling too. This conversation makes Lenina feel rejected. Yes, and civilization is sterilization.† (Ch. 7) Civilization is sterilization is one of the main Society’s teachings in Brave New World, and different characters utter it throughout the novel. Sterilization can mean different things: one is sanitation and cleanliness, as opposed to the filth people in the Reservation live in. â€Å" I had an awful cut on my head when they first brought me here. You cant imagine what they used to put on it. Filth, just filth† Linda recalls before uttering the statement. Similarly, Lenina equates sterilization with cleanliness, which, she insists â€Å"is next to fordliness.† However, sterilization can also be interpreted with regards to making women unable to bear children. In the World State, 70% of the female population are made into freemartins, meaning sterile women. They achieve that by injecting the female embryos with a low dose of sex hormones. This makes them sterile and fairly normal, except for the slight tendency to grow a beard.   Happiness And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears- that’s what soma is. (Chapter 17) This quote is excerpted from a conversation between John and Mustapha, which takes place in Chapter 17. Mustapha is trying to convince John how soma is a cure-all remedy for any unpleasant emotion, which, in turn, lead to inefficiency and conflict. Unlike the hard moral training of the past, soma can solve any ailment of the soul almost instantly. Curiously, the parallel between moral training, which is usually a core aspect of religion, and soma, hints at the origin of the word soma itself. It used to be an entheogenic draught that was consumed during rituals in the Vedic religion. Several myths also see two opposing factions of deities fighting over the ownership of soma. But while, originally, soma was consumed by gods and humans alike in order to attain â€Å"the light† and immortality, the soma, which, in the world state, comes in convenient tablets, and it’s mainly used to deal with any â€Å"unpleasantness†: Lenina knocks herself out with it after being un able to endure the horrors she witnessed in the Reservation, while Linda who, in her isolation in the Reservation had been looking for a substitute for the soma in mescaline and peyotl, eventually is prescribed a lethal dose of soma once she gets back to the World State.