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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many species of gastric-brooding frogs went extinct recently?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

2. When did Darwin write to Anton Dohrn, founder of a marine biological station at Castello Aragonese?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1883.

3. When was the last auk killed?
(a) 1821.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1831.

4. When Cohn-Haft and his colleagues banded birds across the reserve, how many did they band?
(a) 8,000.
(b) 13,000.
(c) 25,000.
(d) 11,000.

5. How tall were adult auks?
(a) 1 1/2 feet tall.
(b) About 3 feet tall.
(c) More than 2 1/2 feet tall.
(d) 4 feet tall.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the best time to hear birds in the Amazon?

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

3. In Chapter 8, how long had it taken Silman and the author to travel 50 miles?

4. What was the second-largest coral reef located?

5. What type of stone was in the jagged outcropping of Dob's Linn?

(see the answer key)

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