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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 were undergraduate students recruited for an experiment about perception?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1949.

2. 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.

3. According to the Geological Society of America, how much land had people directly transformed?
(a) About 5 million square acres.
(b) About 27 million square miles.
(c) About 45 million square acres.
(d) About 35 million square acres.

4. What was the modern day name for the island where explorers once found auks?
(a) Byrd Island.
(b) Fowl Island.
(c) Penguin Island.
(d) Funk Island.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many tree plots had Silman established to study climate change in the tropics?

2. During a conversation at the pub in the world's narrowest hotel, what favorite subject of Zalasiewicz was discussed?

3. When did Cuvier give the "mastodonte" its name in a paper he published?

4. When was it difficult to avoid stepping on frogs in Sierra Nevada?

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

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