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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what zoo did herpetologist Paul Crump work?
(a) Washington D.C.
(b) Kansas City.
(c) Houston.
(d) Denver.

2. How tall were adult auks?
(a) More than 2 1/2 feet tall.
(b) About 3 feet tall.
(c) 1 1/2 feet tall.
(d) 4 feet tall.

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

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

5. Where was the first clue discovered as to what was killing off frogs around the world?
(a) San Diego Zoo.
(b) Scientific expedition to Brazil.
(c) Scientific expedition to Chile.
(d) National Zoo in Washington D.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Darwin write to Anton Dohrn, founder of a marine biological station at Castello Aragonese?

2. When did Cuvier give the "mastodonte" its name in a paper he published?

3. Where was the Jambato toad found in backyard gardens?

4. Where was Castello Aragonese located?

5. Where did the Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frogs lay their eggs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the great auk look like?

2. How did Lyell and Darwin view extinction?

3. What were the frogs like that Darwin discovered in Chile?

4. In Chapter 5, what rocks did Luis Alvarez study and what did he learn?

5. What did Cuvier do at the Paris Museum of Natural History?

6. What was Bd and how did it kill frogs?

7. Why did Luis Alvarez believe that iridium would help to clock the clay at Gubbio?

8. Where was the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center located and what does it look like?

9. What did Charles Darwin do when he finished Cambridge?

10. What does the town of El Valle De Anton look like?

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