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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. 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?
(a) 4 days.
(b) About a week.
(c) Few days.
(d) 6 days.

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

3. From what university were psychologist who recruited undergraduate students for an experiment about perception?
(a) Yale.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Brown.
(d) Harvard.

4. Where did evolution emerge as a concept?
(a) Russia.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) Germany.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hall-Spencer first take a trip to the vents near Castello Aragonese?

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

3. How old was Darwin when the voyage on the HMS "Beagle" ended?

4. Where were the paleontologists from who published a study revealing not only the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser events?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where and how did extinction emerge as an idea?

2. What were graptolites?

3. How did Lyell and Darwin view extinction?

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

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

6. Why did Luis Alvarez believe that iridium would help to clock the clay at Gubbio?

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

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

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

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

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