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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 old was Darwin when the voyage on the HMS "Beagle" ended?
(a) 27.
(b) 28.
(c) 24.
(d) 26.
2. When was the tenth edition of Car Linnaeus' "Systema Naturae" published?
(a) 1764.
(b) 1736.
(c) 1758.
(d) 1794.
3. What color was the La Loma robber frog?
(a) Green and black.
(b) Orangey-red.
(c) Brownish-orange.
(d) Reddish blue.
4. When the oceans emptied out, how many marine species were believed to have died off?
(a) 45 percent.
(b) 85 percent.
(c) 35 percent.
(d) 65 percent.
5. What town about 100 miles north of Rome, might be described as a municipal fossil?
(a) Padule.
(b) Mengara.
(c) Monte Corona.
(d) Gubbio.
Short Answer Questions
1. When were the first mastodon bones discovered that were subjected to scientific study?
2. At the time the author wrote Chapter 5, what was the current theory for the end-Ordovician extinction?
3. Who first proposed that there had been five great mass extinctions during the history of life on Earth?
4. Where was Castello Aragonese located?
5. What did Michael Soule suggest as a name for the era humans lived at the time the author wrote the book?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did it seem logical that Walter Alvarez became a scientist?
2. Where were the Panamanian golden frogs housed, when it was discovered they were dying?
3. What did the great auk look like?
4. Where and how did extinction emerge as an idea?
5. What is the purpose and design of the Icelandic Institute of Natural History?
6. How did Hall-Spencer work until he was able to get funding for his research?
7. What was Castello Aragonese?
8. How did Luis Alvarez solve the debate over whether there were treasure-filled chambers inside Egypt's second-largest pyramid?
9. Why didn't Charles Lyell believe in catastrophism?
10. How did Charles Lyell become a scientist?
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