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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many average-sized mice could be killed by the poison in the skin of one golden-frog?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 750.
(d) 500.

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

3. According to Pascal Tassy, how many proboscidean species had been identified?
(a) 180.
(b) 185.
(c) 165.
(d) 170.

4. When was the breeding season for auks?
(a) April and May.
(b) July.
(c) May and June.
(d) March.

5. 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.

6. During a conversation at the pub in the world's narrowest hotel, what favorite subject of Zalasiewicz was discussed?
(a) Rats.
(b) Cats.
(c) Catastrophic events.
(d) Marine life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. How tall were adult auks?
(a) 1 1/2 feet tall.
(b) More than 2 1/2 feet tall.
(c) About 3 feet tall.
(d) 4 feet tall.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what university were psychologist who recruited undergraduate students for an experiment about perception?

2. Where was the first clue discovered as to what was killing off frogs around the world?

3. What type of stone was in the jagged outcropping of Dob's Linn?

4. Where was Walter Alvarez's father a physicist?

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

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