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

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

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

4. Where was Walter Alvarez's father a physicist?
(a) Harvard.
(b) University of California-Berkeley.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Brown.

5. How long did the uniformitarian account of extinction hold up?
(a) More than a century.
(b) 75 years.
(c) 115 years.
(d) About 50 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color was the La Loma robber frog?

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

3. Where was the Jambato toad found in backyard gardens?

4. When Zalasiewicz asked colleagues during a luncheon meeting why they though of the term Anthropocene, how many thought the concept had merit?

5. When the oceans emptied out, how many marine species were believed to have died off?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was extinction dealt with before the end of the 18th century?

2. What were graptolites?

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

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

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

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

7. Where was the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center located and what does it look like?

8. What did Charles Darwin do when he finished Cambridge?

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

10. Where had Bd spread?

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