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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. To what has gene-drive technology been compared?
(a) Steven King’s It.
(b) Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut’s ice-nine.
(d) Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice.

2. How far underground would carbon dioxide be injected?
(a) A few inches.
(b) 1 mile.
(c) 1/2 mile.
(d) 10 miles.

3. Camp Century was created within the Greenland ice sheet in what year?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1960.

4. What happens if coral is unable to acquire new symbionts after a heatwave?
(a) They turn white.
(b) They begin to shrink.
(c) They grow lonely.
(d) They starve to death.

5. Where is Gates’ institution located?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) In the Mohave.
(c) Off the coast of Sydney, Australia.
(d) Off the coast of Oahu, HI.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do some people believe that humans began altering the atmosphere, called the early Anthropocene hypothesis?

2. What is the mouse called that would make it so only male mice survived?

3. Why do commercial jets fly in the stratosphere?

4. Fifteen million tons of carbon dioxide were released by humans in 1776, while today that number is closer to what?

5. How long would it take to turn carbon dioxide to stone?

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