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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice did Darwin receive from his friends, with regard to Wallace's work?
(a) To buy Wallace's notes from him, and pledge him to silence.
(b) Publish an outline quickly.
(c) To work with Wallace and publish a joint theory.
(d) Credit Wallace and share the glory with him.

2. How do scientists relate data from samples and isolates to larger areas?
(a) Extrapolation.
(b) Prediction.
(c) Interpolation.
(d) Speculation.

3. How did Wallace put Darwin in a tough spot, according to Quammen?
(a) By having looked at Darwin's theories before he published his own.
(b) By publishing his theory first.
(c) By having used some of Darwin's observations in his own work.
(d) By telling him about his work.

4. What does Quammen says Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace had in common?
(a) They both studied island ecosystems.
(b) They both studied birds.
(c) They both collected insects and primates.
(d) They both found hostile responses to their work.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Quammen say isolates can occur?

2. What population does Quammen compare with the thylacine population?

3. Who did Robert Bates work with?

4. What tragedy struck Wallace on his return to England?

5. What is the first example Quammen cites of a species that has gone extinct?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Frank Preston, and what was his contribution to the discussion of island size and species count?

2. What do we know about the dodo?

3. What example does Quammen draw from the island of Guam?

4. Describe how Quammen's narrative progresses from one idea to the next.

5. What was MacArthur and Wilson's contribution to island biogeography?

6. What examples does Quammen use of dispersal ability?

7. What other Mauritius species does Quammen describe?

8. What concept did Wallace develop in the Malay Archipelago?

9. What was the understanding about the variety of life forms before the theory of evolution came along?

10. When did the field of island biogeography begin?

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