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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. How long after the eruption did it take for 271 species to be counted at Krakatau?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 10 years.

2. What did the dodo eat?
(a) Small mammals and snakes.
(b) Insects.
(c) Other birds.
(d) Fruit.

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

4. What doe Quammen say about this rule?
(a) It required enormous statistical calculations to arrive at it.
(b) It is highly controversial.
(c) It is still not established as accepted science.
(d) It is intuitive, but also more complicated.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many species would an island of 4,000 square miles have, according to Quammen?

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

3. What belief of Darwin's has modern science disproved?

4. Which scientist compared animals on islands with their counterparts on larger landmasses?

5. When was the concept of the minimum viable population introduced?

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