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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 town about 100 miles north of Rome, might be described as a municipal fossil?
(a) Padule.
(b) Mengara.
(c) Gubbio.
(d) Monte Corona.

2. Where did golden frogs lay their eggs?
(a) Sand dunes.
(b) River banks.
(c) Shallow caves near creeks.
(d) Shallow running water.

3. What type of crystals did Zalasiewicz's colleagues hope to find at Dob's Linn?
(a) Quartz
(b) Zircon.
(c) Apatite.
(d) Fluorite.

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

5. When was the word "catastrophist" first coined?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1844.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did paleontologists publish a study revealing not just the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser extinction events?

2. What was the modern day name for the island where explorers once found auks?

3. How many eggs was it thought the great auk produced in a year?

4. How old was Darwin when the voyage on the HMS "Beagle" ended?

5. What did Luis Alvarez decide to use to clock the clay in Gola del Bottaccione?

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