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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 komodo dragon's territory?
(a) As inseparable from the islands where it developed.
(b) As any environment that satisfies its survival requirements.
(c) As an island within an island.
(d) As the whole history of its development in the ecosystem.

2. What were Frank Preston's findings in plotting the distribution of species in island habitats?
(a) A random relationship between size of island and commonness of species.
(b) A direct proportion to represent commonness of species.
(c) An indirect proportion to represent commonness of species.
(d) A bell curve to represent commonness of species.

3. What did Frank Preston study?
(a) Species distribution.
(b) Adaptive radiation.
(c) Species divergence.
(d) Predator-prey relations.

4. What is the first example Quammen cites of a species that has gone extinct?
(a) The dodo.
(b) The tiger in Bali.
(c) The Manatee in Florida.
(d) The passenger pigeon in North America.

5. What family does Quammen say hippopotamuses and deer belong to?
(a) Marsupials.
(b) Ungulates.
(c) Anamnia.
(d) Monorhina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What doe Quammen say about this rule?

2. What did the dodo eat?

3. What was the special creation theory?

4. What does Quammen say Wallace developed in South America?

5. What does Quammen interject into his historical narrative about ecosystem studies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What examples does Quammen cite of species changing size on islands?

2. What are the different terms Quammen describes for how people have accounted for the degradation of ecosystems?

3. What is the first explanation Quammen offers for the relationship between island size and species count?

4. Who is Frank Preston, and what was his contribution to the discussion of island size and species count?

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

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

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

8. What does Quammen use the island of Tasmania as an example of?

9. What factors have effectively broken the Persian rug of nature into pieces, according to Quammen?

10. What is archipelago speciation?

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