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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters III-IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?
(a) Edinburgh.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) York.

2. Where did Darwin pick up volume two of Lyell's work?
(a) Montevideo.
(b) Chile.
(c) Galapagos Islands.
(d) New Zealand.

3. Where did Charles Lyell grow up?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Scotland.
(c) North of England.
(d) South of England.

4. In what zoo did herpetologist Paul Crump work?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) Denver.
(c) Houston.
(d) Washington D.C.

5. How many hooks would Armannsson have on his line when he fished for cod?
(a) 350.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 450.
(d) 12,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Walter Alvarez visit the Gola del Bottaccione?

2. How many average-sized mice could be killed by the poison in the skin of one golden-frog?

3. Where was the Icelandic Institute of Natural History located?

4. Where was Walter Alvarez's father a physicist?

5. How long were auk eggs?

(see the answer key)

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