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

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

3. Which scientist compared animals on islands with their counterparts on larger landmasses?
(a) Wallace.
(b) Foster.
(c) Quammen.
(d) Darwin.

4. What does Quammen say makes animals smaller on islands?
(a) Smaller territories.
(b) Larger food supply.
(c) Smaller food supply.
(d) Larger predators.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Quammen describe the efforts of other scientists?

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

3. What does Quammen say makes his field important?

4. How does Quammen find fault with other scientists studying extinctions?

5. What does Quammen interject into his historical narrative about ecosystem studies?

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