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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Alvarez get a job at Berkeley?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1981.

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

3. What was the second-largest coral reef located?
(a) Red Sea.
(b) Off the coast of Belize.
(c) Indian ocean.
(d) Caribbean.

4. How big was each of Silman's tree plots?
(a) 3 1/2 acres.
(b) 1 acre.
(c) 3 acres.
(d) 2 1/2 acres.

5. How many average-sized mice could be killed by the poison in the skin of one golden-frog?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 750.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much did Icelanders pay in 1971 to buy the auk back?

3. How long after the author read an article about the five great mass extinctions that had occurred on the earth did she book a plane to Panama?

4. In Chapter 5, where was Luis Alvarez able to obtain rock samples?

5. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?

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