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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters V-VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many species of gastric-brooding frogs went extinct recently?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

2. When Zalasiewicz asked colleagues during a luncheon meeting why they though of the term Anthropocene, how many thought the concept had merit?
(a) 15 out of 18.
(b) 32 out 38.
(c) 40 out of 51.
(d) 21 out of 22.

3. Of the fossils collected by Kolbert at Dob's Linn, what letter did many of them resemble?
(a) T.
(b) V.
(c) M.
(d) L.

4. How many auk beaks were found in an ancient grave in Canada?
(a) 150.
(b) 300.
(c) About 50.
(d) More than 100.

5. When were the golden-frogs in Sante Fe, effectively wiped out?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2004.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Paul Crutzen, how much of the earth had been transformed by human activity?

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

3. What group did Condon and Millar, Zalasiewicz's colleagues, work for?

4. What did the market of El Valle offer besides embroidery and hats?

5. When was the Alvarezes' paper "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction" published?

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