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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of frog can live in the Australian desert?
(a) Sandhill frog.
(b) Wood frog.
(c) Tree frogs.
(d) Spring peppers.

2. Of the fossils collected by Kolbert at Dob's Linn, what letter did many of them resemble?
(a) M.
(b) T.
(c) V.
(d) L.

3. How many eggs was it thought the great auk produced in a year?
(a) 11.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 8.

4. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?
(a) York.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Edinburgh.
(d) Cambridge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 1980s, where did an American herpetologist go and find only one single male golden toad?

2. When was it difficult to avoid stepping on frogs in Sierra Nevada?

3. How wide was a volcanic crater mentioned by the author in Chapter I?

4. When Lyell's work was printed in a first run, how many copies were printed?

5. When the oceans emptied out, how many marine species were believed to have died off?

(see the answer key)

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