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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters V-VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Walter Alvarez visit the Gola del Bottaccione?
(a) Early 1970s.
(b) 1978.
(c) Late 1970s.
(d) 1964.

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

3. Where did golden frogs lay their eggs?
(a) River banks.
(b) Shallow caves near creeks.
(c) Sand dunes.
(d) Shallow running water.

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

5. Where was Castello Aragonese located?
(a) 5 miles west of Sorrento.
(b) 18 miles west of Naples.
(c) 8 miles west of Sorrento.
(d) 18 miles east of Naples.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many species found in the vent-free zone near Castello Aragonese, disappeared in the pH 7.8 zone?

2. On which edge of Castello Aragonese were the waters more or less unaffected by the vents?

3. When did Darwin write to Anton Dohrn, founder of a marine biological station at Castello Aragonese?

4. When was the breeding season for auks?

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

(see the answer key)

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