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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) Northern Britain.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Wales.

2. How many eggs was it thought the great auk produced in a year?
(a) 4.
(b) 11.
(c) 8.
(d) 1.

3. What color eyes does Kolbert's guide have who shows her around Dob's Linn?
(a) Black.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Brown.

4. When were the golden-frogs in Sante Fe, effectively wiped out?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2004.

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

6. Worldwide, how many amphibians species had been identified?
(a) Just over 7,000.
(b) 4,500.
(c) About 5,000.
(d) 3,500.

7. When did Darwin write to Anton Dohrn, founder of a marine biological station at Castello Aragonese?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1874.

8. How many hooks would Armannsson have on his line when he fished for cod?
(a) 350.
(b) 450.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 12,000.

9. When a second set of mastodon bones were found, where we they sent?
(a) Berlin.
(b) London.
(c) Berne.
(d) Paris.

10. In the late 1980s, where did an American herpetologist go and find only one single male golden toad?
(a) Honduras.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Costa Rica.
(d) Dominican Repulican.

11. What town about 100 miles north of Rome, might be described as a municipal fossil?
(a) Monte Corona.
(b) Gubbio.
(c) Mengara.
(d) Padule.

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

13. Where did Charles Lyell grow up?
(a) Ireland.
(b) South of England.
(c) North of England.
(d) Scotland.

14. When the oceans emptied out, how many marine species were believed to have died off?
(a) 85 percent.
(b) 45 percent.
(c) 35 percent.
(d) 65 percent.

15. When Lyell spoke in Boston, how many people tried to get tickets?
(a) About 5,000.
(b) More than 4,000.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 3,500.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Luis Alvarez decide to use to clock the clay in Gola del Bottaccione?

2. When were the first mastodon bones discovered that were subjected to scientific study?

3. How long a line did Armannsson use when he fished for cod?

4. Where were the paleontologists from who published a study revealing not only the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser events?

5. What did the call of the horned marsupial frog sound like?

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