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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through So Huge A Bignes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Wallace travel after the Amazon?
(a) The Malay Archipelago.
(b) Australia.
(c) Galapagos islands.
(d) Palestine.

2. What family does Quammen say hippopotamuses and deer belong to?
(a) Marsupials.
(b) Monorhina.
(c) Ungulates.
(d) Anamnia.

3. What literary device describes the questions David Quammen asks about the rug?
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Rhetorical question.
(c) Leading question.
(d) Aopstrophe.

4. What is the term that encompasses David Quammen's overall idea?
(a) Island biogeography.
(b) Survival of the fittest.
(c) Functional adaptation.
(d) Ecosystem collapse.

5. How long after the eruption did it take for 271 species to be counted at Krakatau?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 10 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Quammen say about each of the pieces?

2. What was the special creation theory?

3. What does Quammen say Wallace developed in South America?

4. What assumption does Quammen make at the end of his introductory chapter?

5. What is the genre of The Song of the Dodo?

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