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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 does David Quammen invoke as he describes cutting the rug?
(a) The outrage of the rug weavers.
(b) The joy of the scissors.
(c) The dissolution of the design.
(d) The despair of the threads.
2. What is the Guam rail?
(a) A marsupial.
(b) A dog.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A bird.
3. What was the special creation theory?
(a) The theory that man was specifically created out of the best traits of the other animals.
(b) The theory that the universe was created especially for man's comfort.
(c) The idea that God made each species for its environment.
(d) The theory that species developed only the most aesthetic traits.
4. What does Quammen says Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace had in common?
(a) They both found hostile responses to their work.
(b) They both studied birds.
(c) They both collected insects and primates.
(d) They both studied island ecosystems.
5. What does Quammen say makes his field important?
(a) Because it is holistic and global in scope.
(b) Because island ecosystems are a good metaphor for ecosystems as a whole.
(c) Because it has predicted recent phenomena.
(d) Because it accounts for events other fields cannot account for.
Short Answer Questions
1. What literary device describes the questions David Quammen asks about the rug?
2. What family does Quammen say hippopotamuses and deer belong to?
3. Where did Quammen go to study temrecs?
4. When does Quammen say his field became a field of inquiry?
5. What ecosystem does Wallace distinguish from ecosystems that developed in isolation?
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