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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 does Quammen say about Wilson and Macarthur's 'The Theory of Island Biogeography'?
(a) It was practically unnoticed.
(b) Its effect was not felt for years.
(c) It was doubted at the time it was published.
(d) It was a book that changed things.

2. What evidence did Wallace site to suggest problems with the special creation theory?
(a) That species had adapted to every different environment on earth.
(b) That some ecological niches went unfilled.
(c) That human beings could be found in every climate.
(d) That when species were displaced, they sometimes thrived in the new territory.

3. Where does Quammen say isolates can occur?
(a) In the bottoms of lakes.
(b) On islands and on land.
(c) Only on islands.
(d) Only in areas separated by steep mountains or deserts.

4. Why was the thylacine killed off?
(a) Because it lost its habitat to colonists.
(b) Because it preyed on colonists' sheep and was hunted.
(c) Because its eggs were collected by sailors.
(d) Because invasive species competed more successfully for food.

5. What family does Quammen say hippopotamuses and deer belong to?
(a) Anamnia.
(b) Marsupials.
(c) Ungulates.
(d) Monorhina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Owen Griffiths?

2. How did sailors describe the dodo?

3. What did Frank Preston say made up the majority of species in any ecosystem?

4. Who does Quammen say typically collected insects?

5. What did Wilson show Quammen when the two men visited?

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