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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters IX-X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of crystals did Zalasiewicz's colleagues hope to find at Dob's Linn?
(a) Zircon.
(b) Fluorite.
(c) Apatite.
(d) Quartz

2. From a single species of tree, how many species of beetles had entomologist Terry Erwin collected?
(a) 1,045.
(b) 950.
(c) 814.
(d) 789.

3. When Cohn-Haft and his colleagues banded birds across the reserve, how many did they band?
(a) 13,000.
(b) 11,000.
(c) 8,000.
(d) 25,000.

4. When the Alvarezes published their hypothesis, how many sites did they know of where the iridium layer was exposed?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

5. In a cave in Vermont, how many bat corpses piled up on the ground after they were affected by "Geomyces destructans"?
(a) 350.
(b) Thousands.
(c) 450.
(d) Hundreds.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Europeans begin making regular voyages to Newfoundland?

2. Of the fossils collected by Kolbert at Dob's Linn, what letter did many of them resemble?

3. Where was Dob's Linn located?

4. How tall were adult auks?

5. In 1984, where were grains of shocked quartz found in a layer of clay?

(see the answer key)

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