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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. What tattoo did Edgardo Griffith have?
(a) Star.
(b) Toad skeleton.
(c) Dragon.
(d) Skull and crossbones.

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

3. Where did golden frogs lay their eggs?
(a) Shallow caves near creeks.
(b) Shallow running water.
(c) River banks.
(d) Sand dunes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the oceans emptied out, how many marine species were believed to have died off?

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

3. What did the market of El Valle offer besides embroidery and hats?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What were graptolites?

2. What was Castello Aragonese?

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

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

5. What did the great auk look like?

6. Where were the first mastodon bones found that were studied?

7. How did Luis Alvarez solve the debate over whether there were treasure-filled chambers inside Egypt's second-largest pyramid?

8. How was extinction dealt with before the end of the 18th century?

9. What deforested Easter Island and how was that conclusion derived?

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

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