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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters V-VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Hall-Spencer first take a trip to the vents near Castello Aragonese?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2000.
(d) 2002.

2. How many illustrations of species were in "Graptolites in British Stratigraphy"?
(a) About 700.
(b) More than 650.
(c) 435.
(d) 550.

3. In Chapter 5, where was Luis Alvarez able to obtain rock samples?
(a) China.
(b) Russia.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Africa.

4. What was Zalasiewicz's speciality?
(a) Trace fossils.
(b) Coprolites.
(c) Ammonites.
(d) Graptolites.

5. What did Michael Soule suggest as a name for the era humans lived at the time the author wrote the book?
(a) Myxocene.
(b) Cenozoic.
(c) Catastrophozoic.
(d) Homogenocene.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Dob's Linn located?

2. According to Paul Crutzen, how much of the earth had been transformed by human activity?

3. What size was a skeleton discovered west of Buenos Aires?

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

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

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