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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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. Of the fossils collected by Kolbert at Dob's Linn, what letter did many of them resemble?
(a) L.
(b) T.
(c) V.
(d) M.

4. When Lyell's work was printed in a first run, how many copies were printed?
(a) 9,000.
(b) 45,000.
(c) 1,600.
(d) 300.

5. When did paleontologists publish a study revealing not just the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser extinction events?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1980.

6. When were the first mastodon bones discovered that were subjected to scientific study?
(a) 1746.
(b) 1739.
(c) 1751.
(d) 1716.

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

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

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

10. In what zoo did herpetologist Paul Crump work?
(a) Houston.
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) Denver.
(d) Kansas City.

11. Where did evolution emerge as a concept?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) Russia.

12. How long a line did Armannsson use when he fished for cod?
(a) 10,000 feet.
(b) 2 miles.
(c) 1,000 feet.
(d) 6 miles.

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

14. From what country were Norway rats from?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Norway.
(c) Japan.
(d) China.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did students begin returning from trips to Sierra Nevada empty-handed?

2. When did Hall-Spencer first take a trip to the vents near Castello Aragonese?

3. When did Cuvier give the "mastodonte" its name in a paper he published?

4. According to Paul Crutzen, how much of the earth had been transformed by human activity?

5. What was Zalasiewicz's speciality?

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