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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 were undergraduate students recruited for an experiment about perception?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1951.

2. 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"?
(a) 19.
(b) 20.
(c) 21.
(d) 22.

3. What color was the La Loma robber frog?
(a) Brownish-orange.
(b) Orangey-red.
(c) Reddish blue.
(d) Green and black.

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

5. Where was the Icelandic Institute of Natural History located?
(a) Njarovik.
(b) Reykjavik.
(c) Akuyeyri.
(d) Kopavogur.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Lyell spoke in Boston, how many people tried to get tickets?

3. When the oceans emptied out, how many marine species were believed to have died off?

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

5. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?

(see the answer key)

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