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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. On which edge of Castello Aragonese were the waters more or less unaffected by the vents?
(a) Eastern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Western.
(d) Northern.

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

6. When did Alvarez get a job at Berkeley?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1984.

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

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

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

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

11. Who first proposed that there had been five great mass extinctions during the history of life on Earth?
(a) Andrews and Pierson.
(b) Wake and Vredenburg.
(c) Smythe and Brandenburg.
(d) Roberts and Whitman.

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

13. How wide was a volcanic crater mentioned by the author in Chapter I?
(a) Nearly 5 feet.
(b) Almost 4 feet.
(c) 3 feet.
(d) 2 feet.

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

15. What town about 100 miles north of Rome, might be described as a municipal fossil?
(a) Monte Corona.
(b) Padule.
(c) Mengara.
(d) Gubbio.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many eggs was it thought the great auk produced in a year?

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

3. Where did the HMS "Beagle" make its first stop?

4. How long were auk eggs?

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

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