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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Message From Aru.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the first plants to arrive after the eruption of Krakatau?
(a) Grasses.
(b) Mosses and ferns.
(c) Lichens.
(d) Mushrooms.

2. How does Quammen find fault with other scientists studying extinctions?
(a) By saying that their nostalgia clouds their findings.
(b) By saying that their fundamental premises were ungrounded.
(c) By saying that their vocabulary is insufficient to the problems.
(d) By saying that they have only been talking to each other.

3. What is an indri?
(a) A monkey.
(b) A horse.
(c) A lemur.
(d) A turtle.

4. How many indri are living in the forests Quammen visited?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Tens.
(c) No one knows.
(d) Thousands.

5. What was Quammen told to find, in order to observe this species?
(a) The lakes where they built nests.
(b) The cliffs where they perched.
(c) The burrows where they lived.
(d) The tree where they gathered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Philip Darlington propose?

2. What risky move did Carl Jones make to save the Mauritius kestrel?

3. What species did Quammen search for at Aru?

4. Why, according to Quammen, is the theory of equilibrium important to science?

5. How long did Wilson and MacArthur predict it would take for species to reach equilibrium on Krakatau?

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