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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 the dodo eat?
2. What tragedy struck Wallace on his return to England?
3. What does Quammen say about each of the pieces?
4. What does Quammen interject into his historical narrative about ecosystem studies?
5. What traits did sailors notice in animals on remote islands?
Short Essay Questions
1. List the attributes that govern the survivability of individual species in island ecosystems.
2. Who is Philip Darlington, and what was his contribution to the discussion of island size and species count?
3. What are the different terms Quammen describes for how people have accounted for the degradation of ecosystems?
4. What practical assertion does Quammen say Frank Preston made based on his findings?
5. What was MacArthur and Wilson's contribution to island biogeography?
6. What took David Quammen to Madagascar?
7. What is dispersal ability and why is it important?
8. What examples does Quammen use of dispersal ability?
9. What concept did Wallace develop in the Malay Archipelago?
10. What factors have effectively broken the Persian rug of nature into pieces, according to Quammen?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 2
Do you think the earth itself could become an island for the human species? How could the theories Quammen describes in plants and animals apply to human beings in the future? Describe a scenario in which human beings could have to demonstrate the same adaptive techniques other animals showed on islands.
Essay Topic 3
What is the genre of 'The Song of the Dodo'? Is it a travel narrative? Is it primarily a memoir? A book-length article about a scientific field? Is it a scientific treatise?
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