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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IX-X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color eyes does Kolbert's guide have who shows her around Dob's Linn?
(a) Green.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) Brown.

2. How tall did the Arctic willow grow on Ellesmere?
(a) As high as your ankle.
(b) Knee high.
(c) Chest high.
(d) Waist high.

3. How many prey could a colony of army ants on the march consume per day?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 11,000.

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

5. How long had BR-174 been paved in Chapter 9?
(a) 17 years ago.
(b) Around 15 years ago.
(c) 12 years ago.
(d) About 20 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Captain James Cook encounter the Great Barrier Reef?

2. Where did Darwin pick up volume two of Lyell's work?

3. What did Ken Caldeira do before becoming an atmospheric scientists?

4. According to American naturalists, Carl and Marian Rettenmeyer, how many species did they discover that lived in association with "Eciton burchellii" army ants?

5. Who first proposed that there had been five great mass extinctions during the history of life on Earth?

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