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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Walter Alvarez visit the Gola del Bottaccione?
(a) Late 1970s.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1964.
(d) Early 1970s.

2. At the time the author wrote Chapter 5, what was the current theory for the end-Ordovician extinction?
(a) Volcanic explosions.
(b) Flood.
(c) Glaciation.
(d) Asteroid impact.

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

4. Where was Castello Aragonese located?
(a) 18 miles east of Naples.
(b) 8 miles west of Sorrento.
(c) 18 miles west of Naples.
(d) 5 miles west of Sorrento.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What group did Condon and Millar, Zalasiewicz's colleagues, work for?

3. What size was a skeleton discovered west of Buenos Aires?

4. When did paleontologists publish a study revealing not just the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser extinction events?

5. When was the word "catastrophist" first coined?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where were the first mastodon bones found that were studied?

2. Where had Bd spread?

3. What were the frogs like that Darwin discovered in Chile?

4. What was Bd and how did it kill frogs?

5. Where were the Panamanian golden frogs housed, when it was discovered they were dying?

6. What is the purpose and design of the Icelandic Institute of Natural History?

7. When and how did it appear that the American mastodon became extinct?

8. What deforested Easter Island and how was that conclusion derived?

9. What did Cuvier do at the Paris Museum of Natural History?

10. Why did it seem logical that Walter Alvarez became a scientist?

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