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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Coming Thing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprising dispersal ability does Quammen say elephants have?
(a) Ability to be carried in other animals' fur.
(b) Ability to go without water for weeks.
(c) Ability to be carried on wind currents.
(d) Ability to swim long distances.

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

3. What does Quammen says Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace had in common?
(a) They both found hostile responses to their work.
(b) They both studied island ecosystems.
(c) They both studied birds.
(d) They both collected insects and primates.

4. How did the data from Krakatau match Wilson and MacArthur's predictions?
(a) Roughly.
(b) Hardly.
(c) Not at all.
(d) Closely.

5. How many species did Wilson and MacArthur predict would establish an equilibrium in Krakatau?
(a) 250.
(b) 50.
(c) 30.
(d) 500.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Quammen say an island is?

2. Why was the thylacine killed off?

3. What does Michael Soule study?

4. What does Quammen use as an example of an island?

5. How did sailors describe the dodo?

(see the answer key)

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