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The primary purpose of the passage is to
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Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
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In 1995, after an absence of nearly 70 years, wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park. During the wolf-free era, heavy browsing of aspen trees by elk populations spelled doom not only fro trees themselves but for a host of other creatures dependent on them, such as beavers, whose population in Yellowstone crashed after wolves were removed. Without beavers to create ponds, wetland ecosystems--aquatic plants, amphibians, birds--were devastated. When wolves returned, grazers and browsers resumed normal patterns of behaviors, preferring safer, open areas over the dense cover and streamsides where carnivores can lurk. Keeping elk wary and on the move, wolves gave aspen and other young trees the opportunity to grow and become reestablished.
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The passage asserts which of the following about beaver populations in Yellowstone?
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The author would most likely agree with which of the following claims about the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone?
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The passage supplies information for answering which of the following questions?
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