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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through World in Pieces.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would you describe Quammen's style?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Patient and thorough.
(c) Disjointed.
(d) Linear.

2. Where does Quammen say the theory of island ecology now applies?
(a) In caves.
(b) In microclimates.
(c) In mountainous regions.
(d) In the mainlands as well.

3. How would you describe Quammen's vocabulary?
(a) Off-hand.
(b) Technical and precise.
(c) Familiar.
(d) Sophisticated.

4. How did Wilson and MacArthur test their theory about recolonization?
(a) By returning year after year to a small island off Tasmania.
(b) By studying new volcanic islands in the South Seas.
(c) By studying data from the ancient city of Atlantis.
(d) By fumigating an island in the Florida Keys.

5. Whose reactions does Quammen record, in relation to Bedo's death?
(a) Poachers.
(b) Villagers.
(c) Hunters.
(d) Scientists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had happened to the smaller reserves in Lovejoy's plan?

2. What were the first plants to arrive after the eruption of Krakatau?

3. What was the state of the muriqui population when Quammen visited Karen Strier?

4. How many Mauritius kestrels were still in existence at the species' lowest point?

5. What were Frank Preston's findings in plotting the distribution of species in island habitats?

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