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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Dob's Linn located?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Wales.
(d) Northern Britain.

2. Where did evolution emerge as a concept?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Russia.

3. When Europeans first landed on an island in Newfoundland, how many auk was it estimated were there?
(a) 75,000 pairs.
(b) About 50,000 pairs.
(c) 10,000 pairs.
(d) As many as 100,000 pairs.

4. How wide was a volcanic crater mentioned by the author in Chapter I?
(a) Nearly 5 feet.
(b) 3 feet.
(c) 2 feet.
(d) Almost 4 feet.

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

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

7. How many species found in the vent-free zone near Castello Aragonese, disappeared in the pH 7.8 zone?
(a) 3/8.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 1/3.

8. How many average-sized mice could be killed by the poison in the skin of one golden-frog?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 750.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,500.

9. When did students begin returning from trips to Sierra Nevada empty-handed?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1985.

10. How many auk beaks were found in an ancient grave in Canada?
(a) More than 100.
(b) About 50.
(c) 150.
(d) 300.

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

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

13. How long did the uniformitarian account of extinction hold up?
(a) 75 years.
(b) About 50 years.
(c) 115 years.
(d) More than a century.

14. When was the breeding season for auks?
(a) July.
(b) April and May.
(c) May and June.
(d) March.

15. How old was Charles Darwin when he was invited to serve as a sort of gentleman's companion to the captain of the HMS "Beagle"?
(a) 19.
(b) 20.
(c) 21.
(d) 22.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 1980s, where did an American herpetologist go and find only one single male golden toad?

2. When were undergraduate students recruited for an experiment about perception?

3. In what zoo did herpetologist Paul Crump work?

4. What did Michael Soule suggest as a name for the era humans lived at the time the author wrote the book?

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

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