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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 golden frogs look like when they walk?
(a) Children hopping.
(b) Drunks attempting to walk a straight line.
(c) Children crawling.
(d) Snakes slithering.

2. In Chapter 7, by what percent did a study by Australian researchers find that the Great Barrier Reef had declined in the last thirty years?
(a) 35.
(b) 30.
(c) 45.
(d) 50.

3. Where was the first clue discovered as to what was killing off frogs around the world?
(a) San Diego Zoo.
(b) Scientific expedition to Brazil.
(c) Scientific expedition to Chile.
(d) National Zoo in Washington D.C.

4. When the oceans emptied out, how many marine species were believed to have died off?
(a) 85 percent.
(b) 35 percent.
(c) 65 percent.
(d) 45 percent.

5. According to an old ballad, who was pushed over a precipice at Dob's Linn?
(a) Devil.
(b) A false lover.
(c) Shepherd.
(d) A small boy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, where was Luis Alvarez able to obtain rock samples?

3. What was served for dinner on the first night of Hanukkah in Chapter 7?

4. Where did Silman teach?

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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