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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 was Zalasiewicz's speciality?
(a) Trace fossils.
(b) Graptolites.
(c) Coprolites.
(d) Ammonites.

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

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

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

5. When a second set of mastodon bones were found, where we they sent?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) London.
(d) Berne.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long were auk eggs?

2. When were undergraduate students recruited for an experiment about perception?

3. How old was Charles Darwin when he was invited to serve as a sort of gentleman's companion to the captain of the HMS "Beagle"?

4. When was the Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog first identified?

5. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?

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