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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Charles Lyell grow up?
(a) South of England.
(b) North of England.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Scotland.

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

3. During the end-Permian extinction, how much did scientists theorize the seas warmed?
(a) 20 degrees.
(b) 50 degrees.
(c) 70 degrees.
(d) 18 degrees.

4. Where was Castello Aragonese located?
(a) 5 miles west of Sorrento.
(b) 8 miles west of Sorrento.
(c) 18 miles west of Naples.
(d) 18 miles east of Naples.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Darwin pick up volume two of Lyell's work?

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

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

4. In Chapter 9, by official count, how many species of birds were there in the Amazon?

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

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