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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. What does Mark Tizard want the general population to know about genetic modification?
(a) It is an exciting branch of bioengineering that needs to be further explored.
(b) It has been taking place forever, as we live in a genetically modified environment.
(c) It is a new and possibly dangerous science.
(d) It is scary but necessary.

2. What idea did Lackner and his friend Wendt come up with?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Ten billion years.
(c) Auxons.
(d) Humans are not very intelligent.

3. Where is Gates’ institution located?
(a) Off the coast of Oahu, HI.
(b) In the Mohave.
(c) Off the coast of Sydney, Australia.
(d) Jamaica.

4. What would Lackner and Wendt’s invention do?
(a) It would send mankind to another planet.
(b) It would shoot small diamond particles into the stratosphere.
(c) It would create solar panels to power the world and scrub carbon from the atmosphere.
(d) It would turn carbon dioxide to stone in a matter of days.

5. Which country produces the most emissions?
(a) China.
(b) Russia.
(c) All African nations combined.
(d) The U.S.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Paul Thomas?

2. Global temperatures have increased how many degrees Fahrenheit since Watt’s day?

3. Lackner realized back in the 1970s what is now well-known that the world is decades away from having what kind of working reactor?

4. According to Kolbert, if the Anthropocene’s clearest geological marker is a spike in radioactive particles, what is its clearest biological marker?

5. What is unfortunate about carbon, even if emissions are reduced or stopped?

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