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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What distinguished this species for Quammen? Wallace had discovered it there a hundred years ago. Darwin had developed his theory of evolve from observing it. Englishmen had lost their fortunes hunting for specimens.
2. What incident does Quammen relate at the end of chapter nine, "World in Pieces"?
3. What habitats did researchers have to examine in the Texas case?
4. How does Quammen's tone change in the final chapter?
5. Who had performed research in Aru?
Short Essay Questions
1. What other ecosystems function as islands and show the same properties of species population and diversity as islands, according to Quammen?
2. What note does Quammen end 'The Song of the Dodo' on?
3. How do genetics play a role in the minimum viable population?
4. What did MacArthur and Wilson argue in 'An Equilibrium Theory of Insular Zoogeography'?
5. How did Quammen get to Aru?
6. What conclusion dis scientists reach in the Texas case?
7. Who was Thomas Lovejoy, and what was his reaction to the debate Simberloff and Abele began?
8. Where was Quammen sent, in order to find what he was looking for?
9. What did Lovejoy find in his studies on this question?
10. What theory did Simberloff and Abele challenge in a 1976 article?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 2
What is the genre of 'The Song of the Dodo'? Is it a travel narrative? Is it primarily a memoir? A book-length article about a scientific field? Is it a scientific treatise?
Essay Topic 3
Why does Quammen minimize Darwin's accomplishment as the founder of the theory of evolution? What does he benefit by debunking Darwin's accomplishment? Is it attraction to the underdog position, do you think? Was Wallace rely a superior scientist? Is Quammen just being contentious?
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