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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 tragedy struck Wallace on his return to England?
(a) He lost his specimens and notes in a shipwreck.
(b) Someone else arrived in England a few weeks before him with similar specimens.
(c) He became sick and nearly died.
(d)
2. What does David Quammen invoke as he describes cutting the rug?
(a) The despair of the threads.
(b) The dissolution of the design.
(c) The joy of the scissors.
(d) The outrage of the rug weavers.
3. What would Carl Jones feed to the wild Mauritius kestrels?
(a) Mice.
(b) Bread.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Rats.
4. What does Quammen say about the overall pattern on this hypothetical rug?
(a) It only exists in nostalgia.
(b) It is ruined.
(c) It can still be reassembled.
(d) It is theoretical, now.
5. What is the genre of The Song of the Dodo?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Prophecy.
(c) Non-fiction.
(d) Fantasy.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did William Newmark determine in his findings?
2. When does a species' dispersal ability become important, according to Quammen?
3. What point does Quammen make by describing his sighting of the species he sought on Aru?
4. When did the Mauritius kestrel population begin to decline?
5. What habitats did researchers have to examine in the Texas case?
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