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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters III-IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Europeans first landed on an island in Newfoundland, how many auk was it estimated were there?
(a) About 50,000 pairs.
(b) As many as 100,000 pairs.
(c) 75,000 pairs.
(d) 10,000 pairs.

2. When did Cuvier give the "mastodonte" its name in a paper he published?
(a) 1796.
(b) 1801.
(c) 1806.
(d) 1799.

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

4. What size was a skeleton discovered west of Buenos Aires?
(a) 15 feet long and 7 feet high.
(b) 9 feet long and 9 feet high.
(c) 12 feet long and 6 feet high.
(d) 10 feet long and 8 feet high.

5. How many eggs was it thought the great auk produced in a year?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 11.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Charles Lyell grow up?

2. Where was the Icelandic Institute of Natural History located?

3. When was the word "catastrophist" first coined?

4. How wide was a volcanic crater mentioned by the author in Chapter I?

5. When was the tenth edition of Car Linnaeus' "Systema Naturae" published?

(see the answer key)

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