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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 much did Icelanders pay in 1971 to buy the auk back?
(a) 10,000 British pounds.
(b) 15,000 British pounds.
(c) 5,000 British pounds.
(d) 2,000 British pounds.

2. When were the first mastodon bones discovered that were subjected to scientific study?
(a) 1739.
(b) 1716.
(c) 1751.
(d) 1746.

3. In the late 1980s, where did an American herpetologist go and find only one single male golden toad?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Costa Rica.
(c) Dominican Repulican.
(d) Honduras.

4. When was the Alvarezes' paper "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction" published?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1978.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the last auk killed?

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

3. When Europeans first landed on an island in Newfoundland, how many auk was it estimated were there?

4. Worldwide, how many amphibians species had been identified?

5. When was the breeding season for auks?

(see the answer key)

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