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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Into the Wild: Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prior to the digging of the canal, Chicago’s waste ran into the Chicago River and into Lake Michigan, which led to what regular outbreaks?
(a) Consumption and West Nile Virus.
(b) Bird Flu and Swine Flu.
(c) Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever.
(d) Typhoid and Cholera.

2. What did Lin Schwarzkopf help to invent?
(a) CRISPR.
(b) The Toadinator trap.
(c) CATCHA.
(d) Brodifacoum.

3. How much land mass has the Isle de Jean Charles lost since the 1950s?
(a) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to five square miles.
(b) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to twenty-five square miles.
(c) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to half a square mile.
(d) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to fifteen square miles.

4. Where did the house mouse originate?
(a) North America.
(b) Europe.
(c) Africa.
(d) Indian subcontinent.

5. For how long might you be blind if cane toad poison gets in your eyes?
(a) Permanently.
(b) A few hours.
(c) A few week.
(d) A few days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two events sped up the drop in pupfish numbers?

2. Each day at the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure, the gates are raised or lowered, depending on what?

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

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

5. What does Mark Tizard want the general population to know about genetic modification?

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