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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VII-VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group did Condon and Millar, Zalasiewicz's colleagues, work for?
(a) American Geophysical Union.
(b) British Geological Survey.
(c) Austrian Geological Society.
(d) Aberdeen Geological Survey.

2. How much did Icelanders pay in 1971 to buy the auk back?
(a) 15,000 British pounds.
(b) 2,000 British pounds.
(c) 10,000 British pounds.
(d) 5,000 British pounds.

3. What size was a skeleton discovered west of Buenos Aires?
(a) 12 feet long and 6 feet high.
(b) 10 feet long and 8 feet high.
(c) 9 feet long and 9 feet high.
(d) 15 feet long and 7 feet high.

4. When Acropora millepora spawned, how many sperm were in each egg-sperm bundle?
(a) 75.
(b) 100s.
(c) 150.
(d) 1,000s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of crystals did Zalasiewicz's colleagues hope to find at Dob's Linn?

2. When were undergraduate students recruited for an experiment about perception?

3. Worldwide, how many amphibians species had been identified?

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

5. When was the Alvarezes' paper "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction" published?

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