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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XI-XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did golden frogs look like when they walk?
(a) Children crawling.
(b) Drunks attempting to walk a straight line.
(c) Snakes slithering.
(d) Children hopping.

2. When did Hall-Spencer first take a trip to the vents near Castello Aragonese?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2001.

3. How much could poachers sell rhino horns on the black market?
(a) More than $20,000 a pound.
(b) About $15,000 a pound.
(c) $31,000 a pound.
(d) $11,000 a pound.

4. When was it believed that the Neanderthal vanished?
(a) 25,000 years ago.
(b) 15,000 years ago.
(c) 30,000 years ago.
(d) 20,000 years ago.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of frog can live in the Australian desert?

2. When did Alvarez get a job at Berkeley?

3. According to the Geological Society of America, how much land had people directly transformed?

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

5. When was the best time to hear birds in the Amazon?

(see the answer key)

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