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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. What was the special creation theory?
(a) The idea that God made each species for its environment.
(b) The theory that man was specifically created out of the best traits of the other animals.
(c) The theory that species developed only the most aesthetic traits.
(d) The theory that the universe was created especially for man's comfort.

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

3. What does Quammen say about the overall pattern on this hypothetical rug?
(a) It only exists in nostalgia.
(b) It is ruined.
(c) It can still be reassembled.
(d) It is theoretical, now.

4. Where is Krakatau?
(a) Japan.
(b) Malay Archipelago.
(c) Tunisia.
(d) Italy.

5. What belief of Darwin's has modern science disproved?
(a) That science would fill in all the missing links in the evolutionary chain.
(b) That evolve tends toward the perfection of each species.
(c) That species can only react to their environmental conditions.
(d) That traits a parent acquires during its life are passed down to its young.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first example Quammen cites of a species that has gone extinct?

2. What does a species have if it has high dispersal ability?

3. What is Lovejoy's term for the ecological crisis?

4. What does Quammen says Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace had in common?

5. How would you describe Quammen's style?

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