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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Quammen describe the efforts of other scientists?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Insufficient.
(c) Partial.
(d) Holistic.

3. What does a species have if it has high dispersal ability?
(a) The ability to withstand great environmental changes.
(b) The ability to change their environment to suit their own traits.
(c) The ability to adapt to new environmental conditions.
(d) The ability to move from place to place.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term that encompasses David Quammen's overall idea?

2. When did Krakatau erupt?

3. Why was the thylacine killed off?

4. How did sailors describe the dodo?

5. How did humans hurt the dodo population directly?

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