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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Song of the Indri.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Quammen say Wilson and MacArthur started with, as they developed their theories?
(a) Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest.
(b) Data from Krakatau.
(c) Darwin's theory of adaptation.
(d) Preston's species-area relationship.

2. What rule governs the relationship between the size of an island and the number of species it can support?
(a) The taller the highest point on the island, the greater the number of species.
(b) The longer the coastline the greater the number of species.
(c) The large the island, the greater the number of species.
(d) The greater the fertility of the soil, the greater the number of species.

3. What is the Guam rail?
(a) A dog.
(b) A bird.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A marsupial.

4. How does Quammen describe the indri?
(a) Impulsive.
(b) Reclusive.
(c) Extroverted.
(d) Amicable.

5. 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 species can only react to their environmental conditions.
(c) That evolve tends toward the perfection of each species.
(d) That traits a parent acquires during its life are passed down to its young.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Frank Preston's findings in plotting the distribution of species in island habitats?

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

3. Who is Owen Griffiths?

4. Who was Truganini?

5. When did the dodo go extinct?

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