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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rarity Unto Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first example Quammen cites of a species that has gone extinct?
(a) The Manatee in Florida.
(b) The tiger in Bali.
(c) The passenger pigeon in North America.
(d) The dodo.

2. What does Michael Soule study?
(a) Tasmanian tigers.
(b) Lizards in the Gulf of California.
(c) Dodos.
(d) Birds in Guam.

3. What function does the first chapter serve?
(a) Introduction.
(b) Explanation.
(c) Prophecy.
(d) Prediction.

4. What does Quammen say makes his field important?
(a) Because island ecosystems are a good metaphor for ecosystems as a whole.
(b) Because it has predicted recent phenomena.
(c) Because it is holistic and global in scope.
(d) Because it accounts for events other fields cannot account for.

5. What was the first species to arrive in Krakatau after the eruption?
(a) A bird.
(b) A spider.
(c) A crocodile.
(d) A snake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What traits did sailors notice in animals on remote islands?

2. Where did the dodo live?

3. What does Quammen say makes animals smaller on islands?

4. What was Carl Jones trying to rescue in Mauritius?

5. What question does Quammen say was debated for years after Darwin's theories were published?

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