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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XI-XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Alvarezes' paper "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction" published?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1981.

2. From what university were psychologist who recruited undergraduate students for an experiment about perception?
(a) Yale.
(b) Brown.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Stanford.

3. When did Suci's mother die?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2007.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2008.

4. What group did Condon and Millar, Zalasiewicz's colleagues, work for?
(a) British Geological Survey.
(b) Aberdeen Geological Survey.
(c) American Geophysical Union.
(d) Austrian Geological Society.

5. When was a nearly complete Neanderthal skeleton found in a cave in southern France?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1907.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long a line did Armannsson use when he fished for cod?

2. When were bones discovered in a cave that gave the world the Neanderthal?

3. On which edge of Castello Aragonese were the waters more or less unaffected by the vents?

4. How long was the debate about Darwin's theory in his 1842 book "The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs" debated?

5. What town about 100 miles north of Rome, might be described as a municipal fossil?

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