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

2. In Chapter 5, where was Luis Alvarez able to obtain rock samples?
(a) Siberia.
(b) China.
(c) Russia.
(d) Africa.

3. When was the Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog first identified?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2007.

4. When Zalasiewicz asked colleagues during a luncheon meeting why they though of the term Anthropocene, how many thought the concept had merit?
(a) 32 out 38.
(b) 40 out of 51.
(c) 21 out of 22.
(d) 15 out of 18.

5. According to an old ballad, who was pushed over a precipice at Dob's Linn?
(a) A small boy.
(b) Shepherd.
(c) Devil.
(d) A false lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Lyell spoke in Boston, how many people tried to get tickets?

2. When Lyell's work was printed in a first run, how many copies were printed?

3. Where was Dob's Linn located?

4. What did the call of the horned marsupial frog sound like?

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

(see the answer key)

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