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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did golden frogs lay their eggs?
(a) Sand dunes.
(b) Shallow running water.
(c) Shallow caves near creeks.
(d) River banks.

3. Where did evolution emerge as a concept?
(a) Russia.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

4. What town about 100 miles north of Rome, might be described as a municipal fossil?
(a) Mengara.
(b) Gubbio.
(c) Monte Corona.
(d) Padule.

5. When did Darwin write to Anton Dohrn, founder of a marine biological station at Castello Aragonese?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1892.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what country were Norway rats from?

2. What type of stone was in the jagged outcropping of Dob's Linn?

3. During the end-Permian extinction, how much did scientists theorize the seas warmed?

4. At the time the author wrote Chapter 5, what was the current theory for the end-Ordovician extinction?

5. When were undergraduate students recruited for an experiment about perception?

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