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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the market of El Valle offer besides embroidery and hats?
(a) Green-frog figurines.
(b) Stuffed falcons.
(c) Embalmed marmots.
(d) Golden-frog figurines.

2. How many illustrations of species were in "Graptolites in British Stratigraphy"?
(a) 435.
(b) 550.
(c) About 700.
(d) More than 650.

3. When did Walter Alvarez visit the Gola del Bottaccione?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1978.
(c) Late 1970s.
(d) Early 1970s.

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

5. When was the Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog first identified?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2012.

6. When was the last auk killed?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1821.
(d) 1812.

7. What group did Condon and Millar, Zalasiewicz's colleagues, work for?
(a) Aberdeen Geological Survey.
(b) American Geophysical Union.
(c) British Geological Survey.
(d) Austrian Geological Society.

8. Where was Walter Alvarez's father a physicist?
(a) University of California-Berkeley.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Brown.
(d) Harvard.

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

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

11. At the time the author wrote Chapter 5, what was the current theory for the end-Ordovician extinction?
(a) Volcanic explosions.
(b) Flood.
(c) Glaciation.
(d) Asteroid impact.

12. What type of frog can live in the Australian desert?
(a) Spring peppers.
(b) Sandhill frog.
(c) Tree frogs.
(d) Wood frog.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Europeans begin making regular voyages to Newfoundland?

2. What size was a skeleton discovered west of Buenos Aires?

3. Where did golden frogs lay their eggs?

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

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

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