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

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

3. What is NOT one of the problems mentioned regarding cane toads?
(a) Their mating call is very annoying and loud.
(b) They are toxic.
(c) They eat almost anything.
(d) They multiple very quickly.

4. When do Kolbert and Van Oppen meet?
(a) Almost a year after Gates’ death.
(b) At a conference for marine biologists.
(c) When Kolbert first met Gates.
(d) After a year of bleached coral.

5. Kolbert mentions that effects of the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic and how emissions dropped how much?
(a) 70%.
(b) 17%.
(c) 97%.
(d) 7%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea did Lackner and his friend Wendt come up with?

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

3. What does bleaching do to coral?

4. Who is Edda Aradóttir?

5. What did the cannibal snails cause in Hawaii?

(see the answer key)

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