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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 function does the first chapter serve?
(a) Introduction.
(b) Prophecy.
(c) Prediction.
(d) Explanation.

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

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

4. How does Quammen say lizards probably arrived at Krakatau?
(a) Swam.
(b) Came with humans.
(c) They developed independently from amphibians there.
(d) Flew.

5. What is the literary term that describes Quammen's addressing the reader directly?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Indirect discourse.
(c) Personification.
(d) Apostrophe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the genre of The Song of the Dodo?

2. How does Quammen find fault with other scientists studying extinctions?

3. Who did Robert Bates work with?

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

5. Where did Wallace travel after the Amazon?

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