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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. Where was the first clue discovered as to what was killing off frogs around the world?
(a) National Zoo in Washington D.C.
(b) San Diego Zoo.
(c) Scientific expedition to Brazil.
(d) Scientific expedition to Chile.

2. When did Europeans begin making regular voyages to Newfoundland?
(a) 18th century.
(b) 16th century.
(c) 15th century.
(d) 17th century.

3. Where did Charles Lyell attend university?
(a) Edinburgh.
(b) York.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Cambridge.

4. According to Paul Crutzen, how much of the earth had been transformed by human activity?
(a) About 1/4 to 1/3.
(b) 3/4.
(c) Between 1/3 and 1/2.
(d) 1/2.

5. Of the fossils collected by Kolbert at Dob's Linn, what letter did many of them resemble?
(a) M.
(b) T.
(c) L.
(d) V.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what country were Norway rats from?

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

4. When did Alvarez get a job at Berkeley?

5. What color eyes does Kolbert's guide have who shows her around Dob's Linn?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Lyell and Darwin view extinction?

2. What were graptolites?

3. Where had Bd spread?

4. What was Castello Aragonese?

5. How did Hall-Spencer work until he was able to get funding for his research?

6. What was the Gola del Botttaccione?

7. What did the great auk look like?

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

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

10. How did Charles Lyell become a scientist?

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