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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 NOT a reason given for why taking carbon dioxide out of a gas stream is difficult?
(a) It must be done on a massive scale.
(b) It is expensive.
(c) It is a challenging and dangerous technique.
(d) Disposal of large amounts of carbon dioxide underground would be tricky.

2. To what island does Kolbert compare desert ecosystems?
(a) Galápagos.
(b) The Arctic.
(c) The Amazon.
(d) The Great Plains.

3. What does Kolbert end the chapter wondering about all the burning trash, the acres of glass, the boxes of bumblebees, the vegetables raised on chemicals and captured carbon dioxide?
(a) Was it all totally cool or totally crazy?
(b) How can she get involved?
(c) How fast can this become reality everywhere?
(d) Are there other plants like this one?

4. Lackner and a friend, Christopher Wendt, met over beers and starting wondering what?
(a) How long it would be until the earth died.
(b) Why humans are always screwing up.
(c) Why no one was coming up with big, crazy ideas anymore.
(d) Where the best beer is brewed.

5. To keep the temperature increase at a minimum, the world would have to end all emissions by when?
(a) The next few years.
(b) The next decade.
(c) The next century.
(d) The next five decades.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do biologists like Tizard hope to get the power to spread genetic modifications throughout a species?

2. In Into the Wild: Chapter 3, why does Kolbert begin with an explanation of the Norse god, Odin?

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

4. Why were cane toads first introduced outside of their natural environments?

5. What happened to an engineer in China who used CRISPR on a set of twins?

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