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

2. Darwin’s ideas regarding evolution were first known as what?
(a) Transliteration.
(b) Transfiguration.
(c) Transmutation.
(d) Transgender.

3. According to Kolbert, if the Anthropocene’s clearest geological marker is a spike in radioactive particles, what is its clearest biological marker?
(a) A decline in disease.
(b) A spike in disease.
(c) A decline in rodents.
(d) A spike in rodents.

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

5. What animal does Darwin use to support his beliefs about evolution?
(a) Gerbals.
(b) Fancy-pigeons.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Lab rats.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kolbert, why are mice perfect lab animals?

2. What was the original name of New Orleans, as given by Kolbert in this book?

3. What does bleaching do to coral?

4. After a course on corals, Ruth Gates moved from where to Jamaica in 1985 to study corals and their symbionts?

5. Kolbert jumps to a day when she meets Alex Kolker, a professor at LSU, who has what as a side gig?

(see the answer key)

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