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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rarity Unto Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Carl Jones trying to rescue in Mauritius?
(a) A crab.
(b) A macaque.
(c) A komodo dragon.
(d) A kestrel.

5. What were the first plants to arrive after the eruption of Krakatau?
(a) Mosses and ferns.
(b) Lichens.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) Grasses.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did humans hurt the dodo population directly?

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

3. What does Michael Soule study?

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

5. What is the literary term that describes Quammen's addressing the reader directly?

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