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

2. How many species of primates could be found in the area of the BDFFP project?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

3. During the statary phase when ants stay mostly in one place to raise a new generation, how long might the ants stay put?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 3 weeks.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 2 months.

4. Where did Darwin pick up volume two of Lyell's work?
(a) Chile.
(b) Galapagos Islands.
(c) Montevideo.
(d) New Zealand.

5. When was the word "catastrophist" first coined?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1844.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1867.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Walter Alvarez's father a physicist?

2. What type of stone was in the jagged outcropping of Dob's Linn?

3. How many illustrations of species were in "Graptolites in British Stratigraphy"?

4. When did paleontologists publish a study revealing not just the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser extinction events?

5. What was the gestation period for a Sumatran rhino?

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