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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 literary term describes Quammen's use of the image of the Persian rug?
(a) Personification.
(b) Simile.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) Metaphor.

2. How does Quammen say islands are sometimes formed?
(a) Earthquakes.
(b) Rise in sea level.
(c) Seismic upthrust.
(d) Volcanic activity.

3. What does Quammen interject into his historical narrative about ecosystem studies?
(a) Sociological insights.
(b) Personal stories.
(c) Jokes.
(d) Apocalyptic visions.

4. What is Quammen really describing as he imagines the hacked up rug?
(a) The spread of pathogens.
(b) Fragmented ecosystems.
(c) Loss of environment to development.
(d) Loss of communication from one region to the next.

5. What tragedy struck Wallace on his return to England?
(a) He became sick and nearly died.
(b) Someone else arrived in England a few weeks before him with similar specimens.
(c)
(d) He lost his specimens and notes in a shipwreck.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Robert Bates work with?

2. What evidence did Wallace site to suggest problems with the special creation theory?

3. How did sailors describe the dodo?

4. What were theories of species evolution based on in Wallace's time?

5. What was the special creation theory?

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