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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Man Who Knew Islands.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Quammen go to study temrecs?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) Madagascar.
(c) Sri Lanka.
(d) Galapagos.

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

4. What does David Quammen invoke as he describes cutting the rug?
(a) The outrage of the rug weavers.
(b) The dissolution of the design.
(c) The joy of the scissors.
(d) The despair of the threads.

5. What is the first example Quammen cites of a species that has gone extinct?
(a) The dodo.
(b) The passenger pigeon in North America.
(c) The Manatee in Florida.
(d) The tiger in Bali.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the special creation theory?

2. What is Quammen really describing as he imagines the hacked up rug?

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

4. What is the relationship Quammen develops between the imaginary rug and ecosystems?

5. What important book did Robert McArthur and Edward Wilson publish in 1967?

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