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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 do scientists relate data from samples and isolates to larger areas?
(a) Prediction.
(b) Interpolation.
(c) Speculation.
(d) Extrapolation.

2. How does Quammen describe the efforts of other scientists?
(a) Insufficient.
(b) Pedantic.
(c) Partial.
(d) Holistic.

3. What is a sample?
(a) A defined area of a large system.
(b) The list of species in an area.
(c) The data that comes from studying an area, large or small.
(d) The set of interrelationships that govern a particular climate and ecosystem.

4. How many species would an island of 4,000 square miles have, according to Quammen?
(a) 40.
(b) 400.
(c) 271.
(d) 88.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What incident does Quammen relate at the end of chapter nine, "World in Pieces"?

2. How many species did Wilson and MacArthur predict would establish an equilibrium in Krakatau?

3. What was Lovejoy's response to the questions Simberloff and Abele raised?

4. How did Carl Jones protect the Mauritius kestrels when their population began to recover?

5. What rule governs the relationship between the size of an island and the number of species it can support?

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