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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were undergraduate students recruited for an experiment about perception?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1939.

2. How many species found in the vent-free zone near Castello Aragonese, disappeared in the pH 7.8 zone?
(a) 1/3.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 3/8.

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

4. How old was Darwin when the voyage on the HMS "Beagle" ended?
(a) 24.
(b) 26.
(c) 27.
(d) 28.

5. When was it difficult to avoid stepping on frogs in Sierra Nevada?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1940s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after the author read an article about the five great mass extinctions that had occurred on the earth did she book a plane to Panama?

2. In Chapter I, where was a volcanic crater located that is mentioned by the author?

3. Where was Castello Aragonese located?

4. What type of frog can live in the Australian desert?

5. What type of stone was in the jagged outcropping of Dob's Linn?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Charles Lyell become a scientist?

2. What were the frogs like that Darwin discovered in Chile?

3. How did Luis Alvarez solve the debate over whether there were treasure-filled chambers inside Egypt's second-largest pyramid?

4. Why did it seem logical that Walter Alvarez became a scientist?

5. Where were the first mastodon bones found that were studied?

6. Why didn't Charles Lyell believe in catastrophism?

7. Where and how did extinction emerge as an idea?

8. How did Lyell and Darwin view extinction?

9. What was Bd and how did it kill frogs?

10. What does the town of El Valle De Anton look like?

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