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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Message From Aru.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were people cutting down the forests in the place where Lovejoy implemented his plan?
(a) To build cities.
(b) To make rangeland.
(c) To make wildlife extinct.
(d) To mine resources.

2. What incident does Quammen relate at the end of chapter nine, "World in Pieces"?
(a) Hiding from poachers in Tanzania.
(b) Being mugged in Brazil.
(c) Mourning Bedo in Mauritius.
(d) A thunderstorm rolling through in Mexico.

3. How many individuals were thought to be necessary to prevent harmful inbreeding?
(a) 200.
(b) 50.
(c) 500.
(d) 5,000.

4. Where did Quammen go to study temrecs?
(a) Galapagos.
(b) Sri Lanka.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) Madagascar.

5. What is the literary term for the final chapter?
(a) Prologue.
(b) Epigraph.
(c) Epilogue.
(d) Epigram.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Lovejoy's strategy in his plan?

2. What does Quammen say an island is?

3. What does Quammen interject into his historical narrative about ecosystem studies?

4. What was the special creation theory?

5. How did Carl Jones protect the Mauritius kestrels when their population began to recover?

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