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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VII-VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many species new to science had Silman and his students found?
(a) 30.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 25.

2. How many auk beaks were found in an ancient grave in Canada?
(a) 300.
(b) More than 100.
(c) About 50.
(d) 150.

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

4. At the time the author wrote Chapter 5, what was the current theory for the end-Ordovician extinction?
(a) Glaciation.
(b) Asteroid impact.
(c) Flood.
(d) Volcanic explosions.

5. When did Captain James Cook encounter the Great Barrier Reef?
(a) 1770.
(b) 1764.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1753.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Crutzen publish "Geology of Mankind"?

2. What group did Condon and Millar, Zalasiewicz's colleagues, work for?

3. In Chapter 8, how long had it taken Silman and the author to travel 50 miles?

4. How many species of native trees were found in Vermont?

5. When did Europeans begin making regular voyages to Newfoundland?

(see the answer key)

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