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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Coming Thing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a sample?
(a) The set of interrelationships that govern a particular climate and ecosystem.
(b) A defined area of a large system.
(c) The list of species in an area.
(d) The data that comes from studying an area, large or small.

2. What is a thylacine?
(a) A kangaroo.
(b) A kestrel.
(c) A crab.
(d) A Tasmanian tiger.

3. What doe Quammen say about this rule?
(a) It is intuitive, but also more complicated.
(b) It required enormous statistical calculations to arrive at it.
(c) It is highly controversial.
(d) It is still not established as accepted science.

4. How did humans hurt the dodo population directly?
(a) By building on their nesting grounds.
(b) By gathering their eggs and hunting them.
(c) By killing them for sport.
(d) By killing the trees that supplied them with food.

5. What was Carl Jones trying to rescue in Mauritius?
(a) A komodo dragon.
(b) A kestrel.
(c) A macaque.
(d) A crab.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Wilson and MacArthur test their theory about recolonization?

2. Where is Krakatau?

3. Where did the dodo nest?

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

5. How does Quammen say lizards probably arrived at Krakatau?

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