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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rarity Unto Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would you describe Quammen's vocabulary?
(a) Off-hand.
(b) Sophisticated.
(c) Familiar.
(d) Technical and precise.

2. What is the tone of Quammen's writing in the opening chapter?
(a) Bellicose.
(b) Familiar.
(c) Morose.
(d) Agitated.

3. What is a trophic cascade?
(a) The interrelation between species.
(b) The cycle of expansion and contraction in animal populations.
(c) The consequences of habitat depletion.
(d) The result of change in one species' hunting habits.

4. What belief of Darwin's has modern science disproved?
(a) That science would fill in all the missing links in the evolutionary chain.
(b) That traits a parent acquires during its life are passed down to its young.
(c) That evolve tends toward the perfection of each species.
(d) That species can only react to their environmental conditions.

5. What does Quammen say about the overall pattern on this hypothetical rug?
(a) It can still be reassembled.
(b) It is ruined.
(c) It is theoretical, now.
(d) It only exists in nostalgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Quammen describe the efforts of other scientists?

2. Where did Quammen go to study temrecs?

3. What surprising dispersal ability does Quammen say elephants have?

4. What was the special creation theory?

5. Who is Owen Griffiths?

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