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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Up in the Air: Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 2, why does Kolbert fly in a small airplane?
(a) To get from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
(b) To see the Chicago River from the sky.
(c) To fly from Chicago to New Orleans.
(d) To get a bird’s eye view of the Plaquemines.

2. To what is the Volcanic Explosivity Index compared?
(a) The Enhanced Fujita Scale.
(b) The Nominal Scale.
(c) The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
(d) The Richter Scale.

3. What does bleaching do to coral?
(a) It detaches the symbionts from the coral.
(b) It breaks down the relationship between coral and their symbionts.
(c) It causes it to become brittle.
(d) It kills the coral.

4. How much land mass has the Isle de Jean Charles lost since the 1950s?
(a) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to half a square mile.
(b) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to fifteen square miles.
(c) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to five square miles.
(d) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to twenty-five square miles.

5. What was Klaus Lackner hired to study in the 1970s, which was supposed to be the answer to the emissions problem?
(a) Fossil fuels.
(b) Fusion.
(c) Hydrogen.
(d) Negative emissions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kolbert talks about a trip she took to Zurich, Switzerland, where she visited a Climeworks facility; what was done with the carbon dioxide?

2. What mammals were first experimented on with CRISPR and the gene drive?

3. Kolbert tells the reader that geothermal plants are relatively clean but do produce what gases?

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

5. Sir David King, a highly-respected British chemist, was working with the Centre for Climate Repair to shoot what over the arctic ice to reduce the amount of sunlight that hits the ice?

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