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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 town about 100 miles north of Rome, might be described as a municipal fossil?
(a) Gubbio.
(b) Padule.
(c) Monte Corona.
(d) Mengara.

2. What did Luis Alvarez decide to use to clock the clay in Gola del Bottaccione?
(a) Radiometrics.
(b) Uranium.
(c) Plutonium.
(d) Iridium.

3. What was the modern day name for the island where explorers once found auks?
(a) Funk Island.
(b) Fowl Island.
(c) Byrd Island.
(d) Penguin Island.

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

5. When was the Alvarezes' paper "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction" published?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1978.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was it difficult to avoid stepping on frogs in Sierra Nevada?

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

3. How many hooks would Armannsson have on his line when he fished for cod?

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

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

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