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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 Michael Soule study?
(a) Dodos.
(b) Tasmanian tigers.
(c) Birds in Guam.
(d) Lizards in the Gulf of California.

2. What population does Quammen compare with the thylacine population?
(a) The indigenous people of Tasmania.
(b) The Komodo dragon.
(c) The passenger pigeon.
(d) The dodo.

3. What surprising dispersal ability does Quammen say elephants have?
(a) Ability to be carried in other animals' fur.
(b) Ability to be carried on wind currents.
(c) Ability to go without water for weeks.
(d) Ability to swim long distances.

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

5. How did sailors describe the dodo?
(a) Swift.
(b) Cagey.
(c) Stupid.
(d) Canny.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did humans hurt the dodo population directly?

2. What does David Quammen invoke as he describes cutting the rug?

3. What were the first plants to arrive after the eruption of Krakatau?

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

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

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