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

2. What does Quammen says Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace had in common?
(a) They both studied birds.
(b) They both found hostile responses to their work.
(c) They both studied island ecosystems.
(d) They both collected insects and primates.

3. What belief of Darwin's has modern science disproved?
(a) That evolve tends toward the perfection of each species.
(b) That traits a parent acquires during its life are passed down to its young.
(c) That science would fill in all the missing links in the evolutionary chain.
(d) That species can only react to their environmental conditions.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tone of Quammen's writing in the opening chapter?

2. How many pieces does Quammen ask the reader to imagine the rug being cut into?

3. What does Quammen say makes animals smaller on islands?

4. What advice did Darwin receive from his friends, with regard to Wallace's work?

5. What does Quammen say makes his field important?

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