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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 Lyell's work was printed in a first run, how many copies were printed?
(a) 300.
(b) 45,000.
(c) 9,000.
(d) 1,600.

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

3. When did Darwin write to Anton Dohrn, founder of a marine biological station at Castello Aragonese?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1892.

4. When did Alvarez get a job at Berkeley?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1977.

5. According to Pascal Tassy, how many proboscidean species had been identified?
(a) 185.
(b) 170.
(c) 180.
(d) 165.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Michael Soule suggest as a name for the era humans lived at the time the author wrote the book?

2. When a second set of mastodon bones were found, where we they sent?

3. 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?

4. What was Zalasiewicz's speciality?

5. When did paleontologists publish a study revealing not just the major five mass extinctions, but many lesser extinction events?

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