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

3. How long after the eruption did it take for 271 species to be counted at Krakatau?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 25 years.

4. What literary term describes Quammen's use of the image of the Persian rug?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Simile.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

5. What were theories of species evolution based on in Wallace's time?
(a) Religion.
(b) Superstition.
(c) Science.
(d) Guesses.

6. What evidence did Wallace site to suggest problems with the special creation theory?
(a) That when species were displaced, they sometimes thrived in the new territory.
(b) That species had adapted to every different environment on earth.
(c) That some ecological niches went unfilled.
(d) That human beings could be found in every climate.

7. What belief of Darwin's has modern science disproved?
(a) That evolve tends toward the perfection of each species.
(b) That traits a parent acquires during its life are passed down to its young.
(c) That species can only react to their environmental conditions.
(d) That science would fill in all the missing links in the evolutionary chain.

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

9. When does Quammen say his field became a field of inquiry?
(a) With Alfred Wallace.
(b) With Darwin.
(c) With MacArthur and Wilson.
(d) With Quammen.

10. What question does Quammen say was debated for years after Darwin's theories were published?
(a) Whether he acted honorably toward Wallace.
(b) Whether he developed the theory of evolution on his own.
(c) Whether he stole his work from Wallace.
(d) Whether he owed Wallace for the material he borrowed.

11. How would you describe Quammen's style?
(a) Linear.
(b) Disjointed.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Patient and thorough.

12. What does Michael Soule study?
(a) Birds in Guam.
(b) Lizards in the Gulf of California.
(c) Dodos.
(d) Tasmanian tigers.

13. How does Quammen describe the efforts of other scientists?
(a) Partial.
(b) Holistic.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Insufficient.

14. Who is Owen Griffiths?
(a) An insect researcher in Madagascar.
(b) A sailor from the 18th century.
(c) A monkey researcher in Mauritius.
(d) A bird researcher in Australia.

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