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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IX-X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long had BR-174 been paved in Chapter 9?
(a) 17 years ago.
(b) Around 15 years ago.
(c) 12 years ago.
(d) About 20 years ago.

2. When did a volcanic eruption force the entire population of Ischia to take refuge on Castello Aragonese?
(a) 1312.
(b) 1460.
(c) 1411.
(d) 1302.

3. According to American naturalists, Carl and Marian Rettenmeyer, how many species did they discover that lived in association with "Eciton burchellii" army ants?
(a) 80.
(b) 250.
(c) 50.
(d) 300.

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

5. During the statary phase when ants stay mostly in one place to raise a new generation, how long might the ants stay put?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 3 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1835, where did Darwin view a coral reef?

3. How far was it to walk from the research station on One Tree to DK-13?

4. When the author visited Reserve 1202, where was the graduate student from who was studying bats?

5. At the time the author wrote Chapter 9, how much of the earth was ice-free?

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