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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IX-X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the time the author wrote Chapter 9, how much of the earth was ice-free?
(a) 75 million square miles.
(b) 45 million square miles.
(c) 50 million square miles.
(d) 25 million square miles.

2. When did Cuvier give the "mastodonte" its name in a paper he published?
(a) 1806.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1801.
(d) 1796.

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

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

5. What did the call of the horned marsupial frog sound like?
(a) Rain falling on a tin roof.
(b) Whistle.
(c) Popping of the cork of a champagne bottle.
(d) Popcorn popping.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Darwin pick up volume two of Lyell's work?

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

3. When Acropora millepora spawned, how many sperm were in each egg-sperm bundle?

4. Worldwide, how many amphibians species had been identified?

5. When did Walter Alvarez visit the Gola del Bottaccione?

(see the answer key)

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