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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. How does Quammen find fault with other scientists studying extinctions?
(a) By saying that they have only been talking to each other.
(b) By saying that their vocabulary is insufficient to the problems.
(c) By saying that their fundamental premises were ungrounded.
(d) By saying that their nostalgia clouds their findings.

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

3. How many pieces does Quammen ask the reader to imagine the rug being cut into?
(a) 6.
(b) 36.
(c) 12.
(d) 144.

4. What does Quammen say makes his field important?
(a) Because it is holistic and global in scope.
(b) Because it accounts for events other fields cannot account for.
(c) Because island ecosystems are a good metaphor for ecosystems as a whole.
(d) Because it has predicted recent phenomena.

5. What was the first species to arrive in Krakatau after the eruption?
(a) A bird.
(b) A spider.
(c) A snake.
(d) A crocodile.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What tragedy struck Wallace on his return to England?

4. What traits did sailors notice in animals on remote islands?

5. What belief of Darwin's has modern science disproved?

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