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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 was the best time to hear birds in the Amazon?
(a) Around dusk.
(b) Dusk.
(c) Before dawn.
(d) Dawn.

2. Where were the paleontologists from who published a study revealing not only the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser events?
(a) University of Michigan.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) University of Colorado.
(d) University of Montana.

3. What type of stone was in the jagged outcropping of Dob's Linn?
(a) Sandstone.
(b) Granite.
(c) Shale.
(d) Limestone.

4. When were undergraduate students recruited for an experiment about perception?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1962.

5. 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?
(a) 6 days.
(b) About a week.
(c) Few days.
(d) 4 days.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was served for dinner on the first night of Hanukkah in Chapter 7?

3. Worldwide, how many amphibians species had been identified?

4. Where did the HMS "Beagle" make its first stop?

5. When did Crutzen publish "Geology of Mankind"?

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