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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 the Alvarezes' paper "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction" published?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1978.

2. In the late 1980s, where did an American herpetologist go and find only one single male golden toad?
(a) Honduras.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Dominican Repulican.
(d) Costa Rica.

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

4. When did paleontologists publish a study revealing not just the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser extinction events?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1987.

5. Where was the first clue discovered as to what was killing off frogs around the world?
(a) San Diego Zoo.
(b) Scientific expedition to Chile.
(c) Scientific expedition to Brazil.
(d) National Zoo in Washington D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color was the La Loma robber frog?

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

3. On which edge of Castello Aragonese were the waters more or less unaffected by the vents?

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

5. How many species found in the vent-free zone near Castello Aragonese, disappeared in the pH 7.8 zone?

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