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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters I-II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were the golden-frogs in Sante Fe, effectively wiped out?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2003.

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

3. Who first proposed that there had been five great mass extinctions during the history of life on Earth?
(a) Wake and Vredenburg.
(b) Andrews and Pierson.
(c) Roberts and Whitman.
(d) Smythe and Brandenburg.

4. What type of frog can live in the Australian desert?
(a) Wood frog.
(b) Tree frogs.
(c) Sandhill frog.
(d) Spring peppers.

5. Where did evolution emerge as a concept?
(a) Russia.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many average-sized mice could be killed by the poison in the skin of one golden-frog?

2. How many species of gastric-brooding frogs went extinct recently?

3. In the late 1980s, where did an American herpetologist go and find only one single male golden toad?

4. What color was the La Loma robber frog?

5. When a second set of mastodon bones were found, where we they sent?

(see the answer key)

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