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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Hedgehog of the Amazon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What doe Quammen say about this rule?
(a) It required enormous statistical calculations to arrive at it.
(b) It is intuitive, but also more complicated.
(c) It is still not established as accepted science.
(d) It is highly controversial.

2. What population does Quammen compare with the thylacine population?
(a) The indigenous people of Tasmania.
(b) The dodo.
(c) The passenger pigeon.
(d) The Komodo dragon.

3. According to Jared Diamond, a nature reserve has to have what characteristics, in order to support a large number of species?
(a) On an island.
(b) Far away from human habitation.
(c) Close to agricultural land.
(d) Large and near other reserves.

4. What rule governs the relationship between the size of an island and the number of species it can support?
(a) The large the island, the greater the number of species.
(b) The longer the coastline the greater the number of species.
(c) The greater the fertility of the soil, the greater the number of species.
(d) The taller the highest point on the island, the greater the number of species.

5. What did Wilson and MacArthur postulate according to Quammen?
(a) That extinctions followed a predictable timeline following colonization.
(b) That once an island developed a full range of species, extinction was rare.
(c) That extinction only began when began to travel to new islands.
(d) That extinction was a regular event on islands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Guam rail?

2. What does Quammen say about Wilson and Macarthur's 'The Theory of Island Biogeography'?

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

4. When did Wilson and MacArthur publish 'An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography'?

5. What does Quammen say about the overall pattern on this hypothetical rug?

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