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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters V-VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much did Icelanders pay in 1971 to buy the auk back?
(a) 10,000 British pounds.
(b) 2,000 British pounds.
(c) 15,000 British pounds.
(d) 5,000 British pounds.

3. During the end-Permian extinction, how much did scientists theorize the seas warmed?
(a) 20 degrees.
(b) 50 degrees.
(c) 70 degrees.
(d) 18 degrees.

4. How old was Charles Darwin when he was invited to serve as a sort of gentleman's companion to the captain of the HMS "Beagle"?
(a) 21.
(b) 20.
(c) 22.
(d) 19.

5. When did Hall-Spencer first take a trip to the vents near Castello Aragonese?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2001.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?

2. What town about 100 miles north of Rome, might be described as a municipal fossil?

3. Where did evolution emerge as a concept?

4. Where was the Jambato toad found in backyard gardens?

5. What did Michael Soule suggest as a name for the era humans lived at the time the author wrote the book?

(see the answer key)

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