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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Crutzen publish "Geology of Mankind"?
(a) 2004.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2002.

2. During a conversation at the pub in the world's narrowest hotel, what favorite subject of Zalasiewicz was discussed?
(a) Cats.
(b) Rats.
(c) Catastrophic events.
(d) Marine life.

3. During the end-Permian extinction, how much did scientists theorize the seas warmed?
(a) 70 degrees.
(b) 50 degrees.
(c) 20 degrees.
(d) 18 degrees.

4. According to Pascal Tassy, how many proboscidean species had been identified?
(a) 165.
(b) 170.
(c) 180.
(d) 185.

5. When did paleontologists publish a study revealing not just the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser extinction events?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1979.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the breeding season for auks?

3. Where did Charles Lyell grow up?

4. When was the word "catastrophist" first coined?

5. According to an old ballad, who was pushed over a precipice at Dob's Linn?

(see the answer key)

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