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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Quammen describe the efforts of other scientists?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Insufficient.
(c) Holistic.
(d) Partial.

2. What surprising dispersal ability does Quammen say elephants have?
(a) Ability to be carried in other animals' fur.
(b) Ability to swim long distances.
(c) Ability to go without water for weeks.
(d) Ability to be carried on wind currents.

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

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

5. How many species of the animal Philip Darlington studied did an island of four square miles possess?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 88.
(d) 217.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Quammen say isolates can occur?

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

3. What did Frank Preston say made up the majority of species in any ecosystem?

4. What literary term describes Quammen's use of the image of the Persian rug?

5. How did humans hurt the dodo population indirectly?

Short Essay Questions

1. What practical assertion does Quammen say Frank Preston made based on his findings?

2. When did the field of island biogeography begin?

3. Describe how Quammen's narrative progresses from one idea to the next.

4. What does Quammen say about the overall pattern of the Persian rug?

5. What is dispersal ability and why is it important?

6. What was MacArthur and Wilson's contribution to island biogeography?

7. How did David Wallace make his start as a biologist, in Quammen's narrative?

8. List the attributes that govern the survivability of individual species in island ecosystems.

9. What is the governing metaphor in the opening chapter?

10. Who is Philip Darlington, and what was his contribution to the discussion of island size and species count?

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