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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preston's Bell.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Tasmania's environmental history, according to Quammen?
(a) It was formed by a volcano in the sea.
(b) It was separated from Australia by water.
(c) It was isolated by a growing mountain range in India.
(d) It experienced a catastrophic eruption that killed off everything on the island, before life returned slowly.

2. When did the dodo go extinct?
(a) 18th century.
(b) 19th century.
(c) 17th century.
(d) 20th century.

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

4. When does Quammen say his field became a field of inquiry?
(a) With MacArthur and Wilson.
(b) With Alfred Wallace.
(c) With Darwin.
(d) With Quammen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sample?

2. Who does Quammen say typically collected insects?

3. What rule governs the relationship between the size of an island and the number of species it can support?

4. What does Quammen say about the overall pattern on this hypothetical rug?

5. How many species of the animal Philip Darlington studied did an island of four square miles possess?

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