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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an indri?
(a) A turtle.
(b) A horse.
(c) A monkey.
(d) A lemur.

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

3. What is Quammen really describing as he imagines the hacked up rug?
(a) The spread of pathogens.
(b) Loss of environment to development.
(c) Fragmented ecosystems.
(d) Loss of communication from one region to the next.

4. What is the genre of The Song of the Dodo?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Fantasy.
(c) Prophecy.
(d) Non-fiction.

5. What doe Quammen say about this rule?
(a) It is intuitive, but also more complicated.
(b) It is still not established as accepted science.
(c) It is highly controversial.
(d) It required enormous statistical calculations to arrive at it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Frank Preston's findings in plotting the distribution of species in island habitats?

2. What did Frank Preston study?

3. What does Quammen say is distinctive about the indri?

4. What factor did NOT cause the decline of the kestrel population?

5. How was the case of the muriqui different from the case of the Mauritius kestrel?

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