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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. According to Kolbert, who knows for certain how much hotter the world will get before out-and-out disaster becomes inevitable?
(a) No one.
(b) Those countries involved in the Paris accord.
(c) Several top scientists.
(d) God.

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

3. The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, showed that the majority of possibilities for keeping climate temperatures down require what?
(a) Negative emissions.
(b) Solar scrubbing.
(c) Positive emissions.
(d) Solar geoengineering.

4. How are rodents often currently killed?
(a) Euthanasia.
(b) Poison.
(c) Traps.
(d) Through hunting.

5. What do Tizard and his partner hope to accomplish regarding cane toad eggs?
(a) Make them hard to swallow.
(b) Make the eggs impossible to fertilize.
(c) Make them edible.
(d) Make them less abundant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Kaneohe Bay a prime location for studying and creating super coral?

2. What is the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere called?

3. What invention launched the Industrial Revolution?

4. How many of Lackner’s trailer-sized carbon scrubbing units would be needed to significantly reduce the carbon footprint?

5. One activist that Kolbert mentions says that sometimes doing nothing is better than what?

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