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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Hedgehog of the Amazon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What factors did Simberloff and Abele cite in their challenge to Wilson and MacArthur's hypothesis?
(a) Size change and relictualism.
(b) Adaptive radiation and endemism.
(c) Competition and adaptation.
(d) Competition dispersal ability and number of species.

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

3. Who is Thomas Lovejoy?
(a) Director of the Sierra Club.
(b) Director of conservation in the U.S. government.
(c) Director of National Parks in the U.S.
(d) Director of the World Wildlife Fund.

4. What tragedy struck Wallace on his return to England?
(a) He lost his specimens and notes in a shipwreck.
(b)
(c) He became sick and nearly died.
(d) Someone else arrived in England a few weeks before him with similar specimens.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the consequence of the Simberloff and Abele article?

2. When does a species' dispersal ability become important, according to Quammen?

3. What belief of Darwin's has modern science disproved?

4. What surprising dispersal ability does Quammen say elephants have?

5. What did Philip Darlington propose?

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