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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the time the author visited BDFFP, how many scientific papers had been written about the area?
(a) About 800.
(b) 612.
(c) More than 500.
(d) 739.

2. When Zalasiewicz asked colleagues during a luncheon meeting why they though of the term Anthropocene, how many thought the concept had merit?
(a) 15 out of 18.
(b) 32 out 38.
(c) 21 out of 22.
(d) 40 out of 51.

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

4. How many species found in the vent-free zone near Castello Aragonese, disappeared in the pH 7.8 zone?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 3/8.
(d) 1/3.

5. What was Zalasiewicz's speciality?
(a) Ammonites.
(b) Trace fossils.
(c) Coprolites.
(d) Graptolites.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Charles Lyell grow up?

2. Where was Bardsey Island located?

3. How many acres of untouched rainforest were inside Reserve 1202?

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

5. When was the best time to hear birds in the Amazon?

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