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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 is Kolbert expecting to see in the SeaSim in Townsville, Australia?
(a) Coral being put under strain.
(b) Small fish that live among the coral.
(c) Coral spawning.
(d) The changing of colors of coral.

2. How far away is a fake Devil’s Hole from the real one?
(a) About 5 miles.
(b) About 50 miles.
(c) About 1 mile.
(d) About 10 miles.

3. Each day at the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure, the gates are raised or lowered, depending on what?
(a) The direction of the wind on any particular day.
(b) The weather report.
(c) The water level and activity on that particular day.
(d) The amount of rain the region as received.

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

5. 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?
(a) The engineer in charge of the levees.
(b) The engineer in charge of the electric fish barriers.
(c) The engineer in charge or rerouting the river.
(d) The engineer in charge of cleaning the sewage canal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the new era in which Kolbert says we live?

2. When the canal in Chicago reversed the flow of the river, into where did it eventually lead?

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

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

5. What two events sped up the drop in pupfish numbers?

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