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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 fundamental premises were ungrounded.
(c) By saying that their nostalgia clouds their findings.
(d) By saying that their vocabulary is insufficient to the problems.

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

3. How did Wallace put Darwin in a tough spot, according to Quammen?
(a) By having used some of Darwin's observations in his own work.
(b) By publishing his theory first.
(c) By telling him about his work.
(d) By having looked at Darwin's theories before he published his own.

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

5. Where is Krakatau?
(a) Italy.
(b) Japan.
(c) Malay Archipelago.
(d) Tunisia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Quammen say his field became a field of inquiry?

3. What evidence did Wallace site to suggest problems with the special creation theory?

4. What family does Quammen say hippopotamuses and deer belong to?

5. What does Quammen say Wallace developed in South America?

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