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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Luis Alvarez decide to use to clock the clay in Gola del Bottaccione?
(a) Radiometrics.
(b) Plutonium.
(c) Iridium.
(d) Uranium.

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

3. What town about 100 miles north of Rome, might be described as a municipal fossil?
(a) Gubbio.
(b) Monte Corona.
(c) Padule.
(d) Mengara.

4. When was the Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog first identified?
(a) 2005.
(b) 2007.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2010.

5. When did Cuvier give the "mastodonte" its name in a paper he published?
(a) 1801.
(b) 1796.
(c) 1806.
(d) 1799.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Darwin pick up volume two of Lyell's work?

2. Where did the HMS "Beagle" make its first stop?

3. When was the Alvarezes' paper "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction" published?

4. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?

5. How tall were adult auks?

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