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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did evolution emerge as a concept?

2. What did golden frogs look like when they walk?

3. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?

4. When was the breeding season for auks?

5. When was the Alvarezes' paper "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction" published?

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