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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 long after the author read an article about the five great mass extinctions that had occurred on the earth did she book a plane to Panama?
(a) Few days.
(b) 6 days.
(c) About a week.
(d) 4 days.

2. When was the word "catastrophist" first coined?
(a) 1844.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1832.

3. How long were auk eggs?
(a) 6 inches.
(b) 4 inches.
(c) About 5 inches.
(d) About 3 inches.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall were adult auks?

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

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

4. When did Walter Alvarez visit the Gola del Bottaccione?

5. What tattoo did Edgardo Griffith have?

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