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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long were auk eggs?
(a) About 3 inches.
(b) 4 inches.
(c) About 5 inches.
(d) 6 inches.

2. What did the call of the horned marsupial frog sound like?
(a) Whistle.
(b) Popping of the cork of a champagne bottle.
(c) Rain falling on a tin roof.
(d) Popcorn popping.

3. According to Pascal Tassy, how many proboscidean species had been identified?
(a) 165.
(b) 170.
(c) 180.
(d) 185.

4. What type of frog can live in the Australian desert?
(a) Sandhill frog.
(b) Spring peppers.
(c) Wood frog.
(d) Tree frogs.

5. Worldwide, how many amphibians species had been identified?
(a) 4,500.
(b) 3,500.
(c) Just over 7,000.
(d) About 5,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog first identified?

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

3. Where was the Jambato toad found in backyard gardens?

4. When a second set of mastodon bones were found, where we they sent?

5. When was it difficult to avoid stepping on frogs in Sierra Nevada?

(see the answer key)

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