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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XI-XIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did golden frogs look like when they walk?
(a) Drunks attempting to walk a straight line.
(b) Children hopping.
(c) Snakes slithering.
(d) Children crawling.

2. At the time the author wrote Chapter 9, how much of the earth was ice-free?
(a) 50 million square miles.
(b) 25 million square miles.
(c) 45 million square miles.
(d) 75 million square miles.

3. What was served for dinner on the first night of Hanukkah in Chapter 7?
(a) Kangaroo meat.
(b) Lamb.
(c) Beef.
(d) Pig.

4. Where was Walter Alvarez's father a physicist?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Princeton.
(c) University of California-Berkeley.
(d) Brown.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 11, how many species of Rhino did the author say still existed?

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

4. When did Captain James Cook encounter the Great Barrier Reef?

5. When was the last auk killed?

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