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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Crutzen publish "Geology of Mankind"?
(a) 2002.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2004.

2. When Lyell spoke in Boston, how many people tried to get tickets?
(a) 2,500.
(b) More than 4,000.
(c) 3,500.
(d) About 5,000.

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

4. On which edge of Castello Aragonese were the waters more or less unaffected by the vents?
(a) Northern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Western.

5. When the author visited Reserve 1202, where was the graduate student from who was studying bats?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Portugal.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Chile.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Europeans first landed on an island in Newfoundland, how many auk was it estimated were there?

2. Where was Walter Alvarez's father a physicist?

3. From what country were Norway rats from?

4. According to an old ballad, who was pushed over a precipice at Dob's Linn?

5. When Cohn-Haft and his colleagues banded birds across the reserve, how many did they band?

(see the answer key)

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