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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Frank Preston study?
2. What did Philip Darlington propose?
3. What does Quammen say about each of the pieces?
4. When does Quammen say his field became a field of inquiry?
5. Who is Owen Griffiths?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the governing metaphor in the opening chapter?
2. Describe how Quammen's narrative progresses from one idea to the next.
3. What examples does Quammen cite of species changing size on islands?
4. Who is Philip Darlington, and what was his contribution to the discussion of island size and species count?
5. Who is Frank Preston, and what was his contribution to the discussion of island size and species count?
6. List the attributes that govern the survivability of individual species in island ecosystems.
7. What is the first explanation Quammen offers for the relationship between island size and species count?
8. What was MacArthur and Wilson's contribution to island biogeography?
9. What is dispersal ability and why is it important?
10. When did the field of island biogeography begin?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Is ecotourism a solution to the problem of species loss? Is tourism a competitor to enforce some constraints on commerce and development? Would the problem of species loss be remedied or worsened if people followed Quammen's example and traveled from one island to another witnessing the environmental degradation and stress on species?
Essay Topic 2
How does Quammen walk the line between stirring up the reader's outrage about extinctions, and soothing the reader's sadness about extinctions? How does he keep the reader from putting down the book out of despair?
Essay Topic 3
Is Quammen consistent from the beginning of 'The Song of the Dodo' to the end? What expectations does he establish in the beginning? Does he fulfill them, over the course of the book? Does he abandon or sidestep the question of conservation in his discussion of methods of analysis and study?
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