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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. What are CSOs?
(a) Centers for Sewage Output.
(b) Collection Systems Overflows.
(c) College of South Orleans.
(d) Combined Sewer Overflows.

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

3. Why was the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure created?
(a) To attempt to control the Old River.
(b) To attempt to control a tributary of the Mississippi River called the Atchafalaya.
(c) To dam up the water coming from the Mississippi River.
(d) To redirect the flow of the Atchafalaya.

4. After a course on corals, Ruth Gates moved from where to Jamaica in 1985 to study corals and their symbionts?
(a) England.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Australia.
(d) The U.S.

5. What is the name of the new era in which Kolbert says we live?
(a) Precambrian.
(b) Jurassic.
(c) Paleozoic.
(d) Anthropocene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does Joe Harvey mention to Kolbert?

2. What book does Kolbert say led to the introduction of Asian carp in U.S. rivers?

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

4. How did Ruth Gates fall in love with the ocean?

5. 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?

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