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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IX-X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was it difficult to avoid stepping on frogs in Sierra Nevada?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1970s.

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

3. In Chapter 8, how long had it taken Silman and the author to travel 50 miles?
(a) All day.
(b) 4 hours.
(c) About a half a day.
(d) 2 hours.

4. Where was Walter Alvarez's father a physicist?
(a) University of California-Berkeley.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Brown.
(d) Harvard.

5. How many species new to science had Silman and his students found?
(a) 10.
(b) 25.
(c) 15.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Acropora millepora spawned, how many sperm were in each egg-sperm bundle?

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

3. At BDFFP in Chapter 9, what bird species would cross road clearings?

4. When an Australian researcher broke apart a volleyball-sized chunk of coral, how many polychaete worms did he find?

5. On the Great Barrier Reef, how large were the sea cucumbers?

(see the answer key)

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