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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 is the Guam rail?
(a) A bird.
(b) A dog.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A marsupial.

2. What is a trophic cascade?
(a) The result of change in one species' hunting habits.
(b) The cycle of expansion and contraction in animal populations.
(c) The consequences of habitat depletion.
(d) The interrelation between species.

3. What family does Quammen say hippopotamuses and deer belong to?
(a) Monorhina.
(b) Ungulates.
(c) Anamnia.
(d) Marsupials.

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

5. How long after the eruption did it take for 271 species to be counted at Krakatau?
(a) 25 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 6 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would you describe Quammen's vocabulary?

2. What did the dodo eat?

3. What was Tasmania's environmental history, according to Quammen?

4. How did Wallace put Darwin in a tough spot, according to Quammen?

5. How would you describe Quammen's narrative of the dodo's decline and extinction?

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