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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of stone was in the jagged outcropping of Dob's Linn?
(a) Granite.
(b) Sandstone.
(c) Shale.
(d) Limestone.

3. How many species of gastric-brooding frogs went extinct recently?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

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

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

6. When did a volcanic eruption force the entire population of Ischia to take refuge on Castello Aragonese?
(a) 1302.
(b) 1312.
(c) 1411.
(d) 1460.

7. Where did the Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frogs lay their eggs?
(a) Hedges.
(b) Hollow logs.
(c) Marshy areas.
(d) Tree holes.

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

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

10. Where was Castello Aragonese located?
(a) 8 miles west of Sorrento.
(b) 5 miles west of Sorrento.
(c) 18 miles east of Naples.
(d) 18 miles west of Naples.

11. From what country were Norway rats from?
(a) Egypt.
(b) China.
(c) Japan.
(d) Norway.

12. What was the modern day name for the island where explorers once found auks?
(a) Fowl Island.
(b) Penguin Island.
(c) Funk Island.
(d) Byrd Island.

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

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

15. How much did Icelanders pay in 1971 to buy the auk back?
(a) 15,000 British pounds.
(b) 2,000 British pounds.
(c) 5,000 British pounds.
(d) 10,000 British pounds.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many eggs was it thought the great auk produced in a year?

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

4. In Chapter 5, where was Luis Alvarez able to obtain rock samples?

5. Where did Darwin pick up volume two of Lyell's work?

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