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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Alvarezes published their hypothesis, how many sites did they know of where the iridium layer was exposed?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

2. What did Luis Alvarez decide to use to clock the clay in Gola del Bottaccione?
(a) Plutonium.
(b) Uranium.
(c) Radiometrics.
(d) Iridium.

3. Where was Walter Alvarez's father a physicist?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Brown.
(c) Princeton.
(d) University of California-Berkeley.

4. When was the Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog first identified?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2007.

5. When did Hall-Spencer first take a trip to the vents near Castello Aragonese?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2002.

6. When was the last auk killed?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1821.
(d) 1812.

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

8. What was Zalasiewicz's speciality?
(a) Ammonites.
(b) Coprolites.
(c) Graptolites.
(d) Trace fossils.

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

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

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

12. When did Crutzen publish "Geology of Mankind"?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2004.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1999.

13. Where was the Jambato toad found in backyard gardens?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Peru.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Chile.

14. When did Europeans begin making regular voyages to Newfoundland?
(a) 15th century.
(b) 17th century.
(c) 18th century.
(d) 16th century.

15. When Zalasiewicz asked colleagues during a luncheon meeting why they though of the term Anthropocene, how many thought the concept had merit?
(a) 15 out of 18.
(b) 32 out 38.
(c) 40 out of 51.
(d) 21 out of 22.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Charles Lyell grow up?

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

3. In Chapter I, where was a volcanic crater located that is mentioned by the author?

4. According to Pascal Tassy, how many proboscidean species had been identified?

5. When a second set of mastodon bones were found, where we they sent?

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