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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VII-VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What tattoo did Edgardo Griffith have?
(a) Star.
(b) Toad skeleton.
(c) Dragon.
(d) Skull and crossbones.

3. When was the last auk killed?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1821.

4. From what university were psychologist who recruited undergraduate students for an experiment about perception?
(a) Brown.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Yale.
(d) Harvard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Zalasiewicz asked colleagues during a luncheon meeting why they though of the term Anthropocene, how many thought the concept had merit?

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

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

4. What did the market of El Valle offer besides embroidery and hats?

5. What did golden frogs look like when they walk?

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