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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VII-VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did Icelanders pay in 1971 to buy the auk back?
(a) 10,000 British pounds.
(b) 5,000 British pounds.
(c) 15,000 British pounds.
(d) 2,000 British pounds.

2. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?
(a) York.
(b) Edinburgh.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Cambridge.

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

4. Where was Walter Alvarez's father a physicist?
(a) Princeton.
(b) University of California-Berkeley.
(c) Brown.
(d) Harvard.

5. How many auk beaks were found in an ancient grave in Canada?
(a) 150.
(b) More than 100.
(c) About 50.
(d) 300.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did a volcanic eruption force the entire population of Ischia to take refuge on Castello Aragonese?

2. When the oceans emptied out, how many marine species were believed to have died off?

3. How many species found in the vent-free zone near Castello Aragonese, disappeared in the pH 7.8 zone?

4. When did Europeans begin making regular voyages to Newfoundland?

5. What type of crystals did Zalasiewicz's colleagues hope to find at Dob's Linn?

(see the answer key)

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