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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long did the uniformitarian account of extinction hold up?
(a) 115 years.
(b) More than a century.
(c) About 50 years.
(d) 75 years.

3. Where were the paleontologists from who published a study revealing not only the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser events?
(a) University of Michigan.
(b) University of Montana.
(c) University of Colorado.
(d) University of Chicago.

4. What was the modern day name for the island where explorers once found auks?
(a) Byrd Island.
(b) Penguin Island.
(c) Funk Island.
(d) Fowl Island.

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

6. Where did Charles Lyell grow up?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Ireland.
(c) North of England.
(d) South of England.

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

8. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?
(a) Edinburgh.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) York.

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

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

11. How many species found in the vent-free zone near Castello Aragonese, disappeared in the pH 7.8 zone?
(a) 3/8.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 1/3.

12. When a second set of mastodon bones were found, where we they sent?
(a) Berlin.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Berne.

13. Worldwide, how many amphibians species had been identified?
(a) 3,500.
(b) Just over 7,000.
(c) 4,500.
(d) About 5,000.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the market of El Valle offer besides embroidery and hats?

2. How many auk beaks were found in an ancient grave in Canada?

3. Where was Castello Aragonese located?

4. During a conversation at the pub in the world's narrowest hotel, what favorite subject of Zalasiewicz was discussed?

5. When was the Alvarezes' paper "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction" published?

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