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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Into the Wild: Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Manly’s trip west end up so arduous?
(a) Manly and the argonauts got lost during a sand storm.
(b) Manly and the argonauts arrived too early in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.
(c) Manly and the argonauts refused to use maps and ended up taking a more difficult path.
(d) Manly and the argonauts arrived too late in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.

2. Kolbert moves onto a visit to the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure located how many miles upriver of Baton Rouge?
(a) 800 miles.
(b) 8 miles.
(c) 80 miles.
(d) 18 miles.

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

4. After a disastrous flood in what year, did the Army Corps of Engineers extend the levees?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1917.

5. How did Ruth Gates fall in love with the ocean?
(a) Growing up near the ocean.
(b) Summers spent by the sea.
(c) Classes at the zoo as a kid.
(d) Watching TV as a kid.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name Kolbert gives for the ability for humans to now watch other species go extinct?

3. Why was the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure created?

4. What does Kolbert find at LSU’s Center for River Studies?

5. When the United States won a case against the developer, Cappaert Enterprises, who took over the land?

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