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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tattoo did Edgardo Griffith have?
(a) Skull and crossbones.
(b) Star.
(c) Dragon.
(d) Toad skeleton.

2. When were the golden-frogs in Sante Fe, effectively wiped out?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2004.

3. What type of crystals did Zalasiewicz's colleagues hope to find at Dob's Linn?
(a) Fluorite.
(b) Zircon.
(c) Apatite.
(d) Quartz

4. How many species of gastric-brooding frogs went extinct recently?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

5. What type of stone was in the jagged outcropping of Dob's Linn?
(a) Limestone.
(b) Sandstone.
(c) Granite.
(d) Shale.

6. How old was Darwin when the voyage on the HMS "Beagle" ended?
(a) 26.
(b) 24.
(c) 27.
(d) 28.

7. In 1984, where were grains of shocked quartz found in a layer of clay?
(a) Wyoming.
(b) Western Utah.
(c) Colorado.
(d) Eastern Montana.

8. How many illustrations of species were in "Graptolites in British Stratigraphy"?
(a) 550.
(b) About 700.
(c) 435.
(d) More than 650.

9. 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) 1/3.
(d) 1/2.

10. How many auk beaks were found in an ancient grave in Canada?
(a) 150.
(b) 300.
(c) More than 100.
(d) About 50.

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

12. When was the word "catastrophist" first coined?
(a) 1844.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1832.

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

14. How many eggs was it thought the great auk produced in a year?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 11.

15. When did Cuvier give the "mastodonte" its name in a paper he published?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1801.
(c) 1806.
(d) 1796.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after the author read an article about the five great mass extinctions that had occurred on the earth did she book a plane to Panama?

2. When did Crutzen publish "Geology of Mankind"?

3. According to an old ballad, who was pushed over a precipice at Dob's Linn?

4. When did a volcanic eruption force the entire population of Ischia to take refuge on Castello Aragonese?

5. When did Europeans begin making regular voyages to Newfoundland?

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