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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Dob's Linn located?
(a) Wales.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Northern Britain.

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

4. What tattoo did Edgardo Griffith have?
(a) Toad skeleton.
(b) Dragon.
(c) Skull and crossbones.
(d) Star.

5. How long did the uniformitarian account of extinction hold up?
(a) About 50 years.
(b) More than a century.
(c) 75 years.
(d) 115 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did Icelanders pay in 1971 to buy the auk back?

2. Where were the paleontologists from who published a study revealing not only the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser events?

3. During the end-Permian extinction, how much did scientists theorize the seas warmed?

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

5. How tall were adult auks?

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