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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of the fossils collected by Kolbert at Dob's Linn, what letter did many of them resemble?
(a) L.
(b) V.
(c) T.
(d) M.

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

3. What color eyes does Kolbert's guide have who shows her around Dob's Linn?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue.
(c) Brown.
(d) Green.

4. When was the breeding season for auks?
(a) March.
(b) April and May.
(c) July.
(d) May and June.

5. What type of crystals did Zalasiewicz's colleagues hope to find at Dob's Linn?
(a) Quartz
(b) Zircon.
(c) Fluorite.
(d) Apatite.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, what color did the author say that the dirt was in Amazonas?

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

3. How long did the uniformitarian account of extinction hold up?

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

5. When Lyell's work was printed in a first run, how many copies were printed?

(see the answer key)

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