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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Message From Aru.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who had performed research in Aru?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Darwin.
(c) Gould.
(d) Wallace.

3. What important book did Robert McArthur and Edward Wilson publish in 1967?
(a) 'The Theory of Island Biogeography'.
(b) 'The Mismeasure of Man'.
(c) 'The Origin of Species'.
(d) 'The Selfish Gene'.

4. What national disaster destroyed kestrel habitat in Mauritius?
(a) A tornado.
(b) A tsunami.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A cyclone.

5. What was Carl Jones trying to rescue in Mauritius?
(a) A macaque.
(b) A kestrel.
(c) A crab.
(d) A komodo dragon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first example Quammen cites of a species that has gone extinct?

2. Why was the thylacine killed off?

3. What did Philip Darlington propose?

4. What ecosystem does Wallace distinguish from ecosystems that developed in isolation?

5. How did humans hurt the dodo population indirectly?

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