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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through So Huge A Bignes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first example Quammen cites of a species that has gone extinct?
(a) The passenger pigeon in North America.
(b) The tiger in Bali.
(c) The dodo.
(d) The Manatee in Florida.

2. What is the literary term that describes Quammen's addressing the reader directly?
(a) Personification.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Indirect discourse.

3. What surprising dispersal ability does Quammen say elephants have?
(a) Ability to swim long distances.
(b) Ability to be carried in other animals' fur.
(c) Ability to go without water for weeks.
(d) Ability to be carried on wind currents.

4. What does Quammen say Wallace developed in South America?
(a) A deep devotion to the science of zoology.
(b) A terrifying vision of the destruction of ecosystems.
(c) A sharp eye for different traits in insects.
(d) A clear vision of the profits to be made in providing scientists with specimens.

5. How many pieces does Quammen ask the reader to imagine the rug being cut into?
(a) 12.
(b) 144.
(c) 6.
(d) 36.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Wallace travel after the Amazon?

2. What does Quammen interject into his historical narrative about ecosystem studies?

3. Where is Krakatau?

4. What does David Quammen invoke as he describes cutting the rug?

5. How did Wallace put Darwin in a tough spot, according to Quammen?

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