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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 does Quammen say about the overall pattern on this hypothetical rug?
(a) It is theoretical, now.
(b) It is ruined.
(c) It can still be reassembled.
(d) It only exists in nostalgia.

2. How many indri are living in the forests Quammen visited?
(a) Tens.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Thousands.
(d) No one knows.

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

4. What is the literary term that describes Quammen's addressing the reader directly?
(a) Personification.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Indirect discourse.
(d) Symbolism.

5. What did Lawrence Abele find in his studies?
(a) That immigration and extinction are mitigated by adaptation and evolve.
(b) That human influences are part of the environment and cannot be ignored in theories.
(c) That two coral heads supported more species than one similar-sized head.
(d) That the territorial needs of each species will be determined by their place on the food chain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a thylacine?

2. What environment is NOT analogous to an island, according to Quammen?

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 Wilson and Macarthur's 'The Theory of Island Biogeography'?

5. What does Quammen believe happened to Bedo?

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