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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IX-X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the market of El Valle offer besides embroidery and hats?
(a) Golden-frog figurines.
(b) Green-frog figurines.
(c) Embalmed marmots.
(d) Stuffed falcons.

2. What did Michael Soule suggest as a name for the era humans lived at the time the author wrote the book?
(a) Homogenocene.
(b) Myxocene.
(c) Cenozoic.
(d) Catastrophozoic.

3. How close to Australia was One Tree Island?
(a) 75 miles.
(b) 50 miles.
(c) 5 miles.
(d) 10 miles.

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

5. What was served for dinner on the first night of Hanukkah in Chapter 7?
(a) Beef.
(b) Pig.
(c) Lamb.
(d) Kangaroo meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time the author wrote Chapter 5, what was the current theory for the end-Ordovician extinction?

2. How many species of gastric-brooding frogs went extinct recently?

3. How many species of army ants were found in the tropics?

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

5. What tattoo did Edgardo Griffith have?

(see the answer key)

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