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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 event does Kolbert attend that is to bring awareness and interest in eating carp?
(a) ChefCarp.
(b) Carp - All You Can Eat!
(c) Carpapaloosa.
(d) CarpFest.

2. To what does Kolbert compare the bringing back of a species from the brink of extinction?
(a) Stockholm Syndrome.
(b) God Syndrome.
(c) Reincarnation.
(d) A heavenly miracle.

3. With whom does Kolbert ride in a boat far down along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal?
(a) The Friends of the Chicago River.
(b) Rachel Carson.
(c) The United States Army Corps of Engineers.
(d) The Clean Water Act Organization.

4. 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.

5. In Down the River Chapter 1, what examples of metaphors does Elizabeth Kolbert give involving rivers?
(a) Rivers are metaphors for pollution, destruction, and decay.
(b) Rivers are metaphors for depth, reflection, and life.
(c) Rivers are metaphors for loneliness.
(d) Rivers are metaphors for all the problems that humans have caused.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Kolbert compare being hit by a jumping carp?

2. What is wrong with the Wood Screw Pumps in the twenty-four pumping stations that pump water out of the city?

3. How far do coral reefs stretch north and south of the equator?

4. After a disastrous flood in what year, did the Army Corps of Engineers extend the levees?

5. By the time 2016’s global bleaching event ended in 2017, what percentage of the Great Barrier Reef was affected?

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