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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Song of the Indri.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary device describes the questions David Quammen asks about the rug?
(a) Leading question.
(b) Rhetorical question.
(c) Aopstrophe.
(d) Sarcasm.

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

3. What does Quammen say Wilson and MacArthur started with, as they developed their theories?
(a) Darwin's theory of adaptation.
(b) Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest.
(c) Data from Krakatau.
(d) Preston's species-area relationship.

4. What does Quammen say about each of the pieces?
(a) They are each complete in themselves.
(b) They are complex and well made.
(c) They are unintelligible without the whole design.
(d) They are nothing without the whole.

5. What was the previous theory that governed speciation on islands?
(a) That there was too little data and too much inconsistency to formulate a rule.
(b) That more remote islands required more specialized traits for survival.
(c) That islands closer to land were more prone to extinctions, which sometimes reduced the variety of species.
(d) That greater distance reduced the number of species.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Thomas Lovejoy's interest in the debate about the size of reserves and the number of species they support?

2. What did Wilson and MacArthur postulate according to Quammen?

3. What is the term that encompasses David Quammen's overall idea?

4. How many pieces does Quammen ask the reader to imagine the rug being cut into?

5. What does Quammen say about Wilson and Macarthur's 'The Theory of Island Biogeography'?

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