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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Up in the Air: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does it make sense to have a geothermal plant?
(a) Along a seam of active volcanoes.
(b) Along a seashore.
(c) In high altitude.
(d) In the jungle.

2. What is Kolbert expecting to see in the SeaSim in Townsville, Australia?
(a) Small fish that live among the coral.
(b) Coral being put under strain.
(c) The changing of colors of coral.
(d) Coral spawning.

3. In Up in the Air: Chapter 1, Kolbert decides to support what type of service?
(a) One that sends SAILs into the stratosphere.
(b) One that runs greenhouses on carbon dioxide emissions.
(c) One that sends diamonds into the stratosphere.
(d) One that scrubs carbon emissions from the air.

4. A widely supported view regarding years the effect of human behavior on the environment is that it did not really become significant until when?
(a) The late-seventeenth century.
(b) The early-twentieth century.
(c) The late-eighteenth century.
(d) The early-nineteenth century.

5. What two events sped up the drop in pupfish numbers?
(a) Over-crowding of species and an overgrown fungus.
(b) Regular above ground nuclear blasts and the pumping of water for a new community.
(c) An earthquake and drought.
(d) Rising sea levels and air temperatures.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what has gene-drive technology been compared?

2. When do Kolbert and Van Oppen meet?

3. Why was Manly’s trip west end up so arduous?

4. When do some people believe that humans began altering the atmosphere, called the early Anthropocene hypothesis?

5. Which Dr. Suess book does Kolbert compare biological interventions?

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