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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When did Walter Alvarez visit the Gola del Bottaccione?
(a) 1964.
(b) Late 1970s.
(c) 1978.
(d) Early 1970s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what country were Norway rats from?

2. What size was a skeleton discovered west of Buenos Aires?

3. What group did Condon and Millar, Zalasiewicz's colleagues, work for?

4. What did Luis Alvarez decide to use to clock the clay in Gola del Bottaccione?

5. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?

(see the answer key)

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