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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters III-IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many average-sized mice could be killed by the poison in the skin of one golden-frog?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 750.

3. In 1984, where were grains of shocked quartz found in a layer of clay?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Eastern Montana.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Western Utah.

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

5. When were the first mastodon bones discovered that were subjected to scientific study?
(a) 1739.
(b) 1716.
(c) 1746.
(d) 1751.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did students begin returning from trips to Sierra Nevada empty-handed?

2. How many auk beaks were found in an ancient grave in Canada?

3. Worldwide, how many amphibians species had been identified?

4. Where was Walter Alvarez's father a physicist?

5. Where did Charles Lyell grow up?

(see the answer key)

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