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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 arrived too late in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.
(d) Manly and the argonauts refused to use maps and ended up taking a more difficult path.

2. What book does Kolbert say led to the introduction of Asian carp in U.S. rivers?
(a) Fish Are Our Friends.
(b) How to Control Non-Native Species.
(c) The evils of Pesticides.
(d) Rachel The Control of Nature.

3. What two events sped up the drop in pupfish numbers?
(a) Rising sea levels and air temperatures.
(b) Over-crowding of species and an overgrown fungus.
(c) Regular above ground nuclear blasts and the pumping of water for a new community.
(d) An earthquake and drought.

4. When was it determined that the Anthropocene Age began?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1880s.
(d) The 1950s.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When Kolbert visits the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ location in Chicago soon after her cruise down the sewage canal, she meets with whom?

4. What are the main causes of the shrinkage of Isle de Jean Charles?

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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