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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 close to Australia was One Tree Island?
(a) 75 miles.
(b) 50 miles.
(c) 10 miles.
(d) 5 miles.

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

3. In the late 1980s, where did an American herpetologist go and find only one single male golden toad?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Dominican Repulican.
(c) Costa Rica.
(d) Honduras.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What group did Condon and Millar, Zalasiewicz's colleagues, work for?

2. Where did Silman teach?

3. How many species of native trees were found in Vermont?

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

5. When the Alvarezes published their hypothesis, how many sites did they know of where the iridium layer was exposed?

(see the answer key)

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