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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what university were psychologist who recruited undergraduate students for an experiment about perception?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Brown.
(d) Yale.

2. What town about 100 miles north of Rome, might be described as a municipal fossil?
(a) Gubbio.
(b) Mengara.
(c) Monte Corona.
(d) Padule.

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

4. What did golden frogs look like when they walk?
(a) Children crawling.
(b) Drunks attempting to walk a straight line.
(c) Children hopping.
(d) Snakes slithering.

5. Where did evolution emerge as a concept?
(a) Italy.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Alvarezes published their hypothesis, how many sites did they know of where the iridium layer was exposed?

2. When did Cuvier give the "mastodonte" its name in a paper he published?

3. When Acropora millepora spawned, how many sperm were in each egg-sperm bundle?

4. What color was the La Loma robber frog?

5. How many species of gastric-brooding frogs went extinct recently?

(see the answer key)

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