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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VII-VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did Icelanders pay in 1971 to buy the auk back?
(a) 5,000 British pounds.
(b) 10,000 British pounds.
(c) 2,000 British pounds.
(d) 15,000 British pounds.

2. When an Australian researcher broke apart a volleyball-sized chunk of coral, how many polychaete worms did he find?
(a) 103.
(b) More than 1,400.
(c) 580.
(d) About 1,000.

3. How close to Australia was One Tree Island?
(a) 50 miles.
(b) 5 miles.
(c) 10 miles.
(d) 75 miles.

4. Where did Silman teach?
(a) Wake Forest University.
(b) Clemson University.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) Furman University.

5. What group did Condon and Millar, Zalasiewicz's colleagues, work for?
(a) American Geophysical Union.
(b) Austrian Geological Society.
(c) British Geological Survey.
(d) Aberdeen Geological Survey.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hooks would Armannsson have on his line when he fished for cod?

2. When was the Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog first identified?

3. In 1835, where did Darwin view a coral reef?

4. How many species new to science had Silman and his students found?

5. When were the golden-frogs in Sante Fe, effectively wiped out?

(see the answer key)

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