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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 were the paleontologists from who published a study revealing not only the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser events?
(a) University of Colorado.
(b) University of Montana.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) University of Chicago.

2. How many illustrations of species were in "Graptolites in British Stratigraphy"?
(a) More than 650.
(b) 435.
(c) About 700.
(d) 550.

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

4. What color was the La Loma robber frog?
(a) Reddish blue.
(b) Green and black.
(c) Brownish-orange.
(d) Orangey-red.

5. Where was the Icelandic Institute of Natural History located?
(a) Njarovik.
(b) Reykjavik.
(c) Akuyeyri.
(d) Kopavogur.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the tenth edition of Car Linnaeus' "Systema Naturae" published?

2. How many auk beaks were found in an ancient grave in Canada?

3. When did Darwin write to Anton Dohrn, founder of a marine biological station at Castello Aragonese?

4. When did a volcanic eruption force the entire population of Ischia to take refuge on Castello Aragonese?

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

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