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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Paul Crutzen, how much of the earth had been transformed by human activity?
(a) About 1/4 to 1/3.
(b) 1/2.
(c) Between 1/3 and 1/2.
(d) 3/4.

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

3. When did Alvarez get a job at Berkeley?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1979.

4. When did a volcanic eruption force the entire population of Ischia to take refuge on Castello Aragonese?
(a) 1460.
(b) 1312.
(c) 1302.
(d) 1411.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How wide was a volcanic crater mentioned by the author in Chapter I?

2. How long were auk eggs?

3. Where was the Icelandic Institute of Natural History located?

4. How many illustrations of species were in "Graptolites in British Stratigraphy"?

5. When Zalasiewicz asked colleagues during a luncheon meeting why they though of the term Anthropocene, how many thought the concept had merit?

(see the answer key)

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