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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 evolution emerge as a concept?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) Russia.

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

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

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

5. When were the golden-frogs in Sante Fe, effectively wiped out?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2004.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Charles Lyell grow up?

2. How many eggs was it thought the great auk produced in a year?

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

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

5. When was the breeding season for auks?

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