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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 Walter Alvarez visit the Gola del Bottaccione?
(a) 1964.
(b) Early 1970s.
(c) Late 1970s.
(d) 1978.

2. When the oceans emptied out, how many marine species were believed to have died off?
(a) 85 percent.
(b) 45 percent.
(c) 65 percent.
(d) 35 percent.

3. At the time the author wrote Chapter 5, what was the current theory for the end-Ordovician extinction?
(a) Asteroid impact.
(b) Glaciation.
(c) Flood.
(d) Volcanic explosions.

4. According to American naturalists, Carl and Marian Rettenmeyer, how many species did they discover that lived in association with "Eciton burchellii" army ants?
(a) 250.
(b) 300.
(c) 50.
(d) 80.

5. Where did Darwin pick up volume two of Lyell's work?
(a) Galapagos Islands.
(b) Chile.
(c) Montevideo.
(d) New Zealand.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of crystals did Zalasiewicz's colleagues hope to find at Dob's Linn?

3. Where did Charles Lyell grow up?

4. When were undergraduate students recruited for an experiment about perception?

5. During the end-Permian extinction, how much did scientists theorize the seas warmed?

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