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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. What does a species have if it has high dispersal ability?
(a) The ability to move from place to place.
(b) The ability to withstand great environmental changes.
(c) The ability to adapt to new environmental conditions.
(d) The ability to change their environment to suit their own traits.

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

3. What is the relationship Quammen develops between the imaginary rug and ecosystems?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Extended metaphor.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Symbolism.

4. Who did Robert Bates work with?
(a) Quammen.
(b) Wallace.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Wilson.

5. What is Quammen really describing as he imagines the hacked up rug?
(a) The spread of pathogens.
(b) Loss of environment to development.
(c) Loss of communication from one region to the next.
(d) Fragmented ecosystems.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would you describe Quammen's vocabulary?

2. What literary term describes Quammen's use of the image of the Persian rug?

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

4. When does a species' dispersal ability become important, according to Quammen?

5. Who does Quammen say typically collected insects?

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