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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. Who is Thomas Lovejoy?
2. What does Quammen believe happened to Bedo?
3. How does Quammen describe the indri?
4. How does Quammen distinguish the Mauritius kestrel from other species that might need to be saved?
5. How many species did Wilson and MacArthur predict would establish an equilibrium in Krakatau?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Thomas Lovejoy, and what was his reaction to the debate Simberloff and Abele began?
2. What was Quammen looking for at Aru?
3. What experiment took place in the Florida Keys?
4. What did people argue over in the wake of Simberloff and Abele's 1976 article?
5. What did Simberloff and Abele propose as a result of their data?
6. What other ecosystems function as islands and show the same properties of species population and diversity as islands, according to Quammen?
7. What did Lovejoy find in his studies on this question?
8. What factors affected the populations on an island, according to 'An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography'?
9. How did Krakatau serve as evidence for MacArthur and Wilson's thesis?
10. What was the practical example of species management Quammen cited from Texas?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Is Quammen somehow at fault for not making solid proposals for how to mitigate switch loss? Is his informative book somehow flawed for failing to make recommendations? Debate this proposition using examples from the book.
Essay Topic 2
Evaluate your own reading of 'The Song of the Dodo'--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 3
Write an evaluative review of 'The Song of the Dodo'. What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?
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