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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Michael Soule suggest as a name for the era humans lived at the time the author wrote the book?
(a) Homogenocene.
(b) Myxocene.
(c) Cenozoic.
(d) Catastrophozoic.

2. What did Luis Alvarez decide to use to clock the clay in Gola del Bottaccione?
(a) Iridium.
(b) Radiometrics.
(c) Uranium.
(d) Plutonium.

3. Where was Castello Aragonese located?
(a) 5 miles west of Sorrento.
(b) 18 miles west of Naples.
(c) 18 miles east of Naples.
(d) 8 miles west of Sorrento.

4. When the Alvarezes published their hypothesis, how many sites did they know of where the iridium layer was exposed?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. According to an old ballad, who was pushed over a precipice at Dob's Linn?
(a) A false lover.
(b) Devil.
(c) Shepherd.
(d) A small boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time the author wrote Chapter 5, what was the current theory for the end-Ordovician extinction?

2. Where was the Jambato toad found in backyard gardens?

3. During a conversation at the pub in the world's narrowest hotel, what favorite subject of Zalasiewicz was discussed?

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

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

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