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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. How many species are thought to live in reefs around the world?
(a) 10 - 90,000
(b) 15,000.
(c) 10 - 20 million.
(d) 1 - 9 million.

2. When Kolbert acts as a skeptic when interviewing Keith, what does he tell her?
(a) She is uneducated.
(b) She is correct.
(c) She is unconventional.
(d) She is exposing her own biases.

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

4. The premise behind solar geoengineering is that, if volcanoes naturally cool the earth, what can happen?
(a) It could be done by man by throwing reflective particles into the stratosphere.
(b) More volcanoes would mean cooler global temperatures.
(c) Humans could harness volcanic power.
(d) Volcanic activity on the sun could cool the sun.

5. What is it called to bring a species back from extinction?
(a) Genetic resurrection.
(b) Genetic rebirth.
(c) Frankenstein genetics.
(d) Genetic rescue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Van Oppen and her students’ plans for coral?

2. When Manly and the others arrived at the edge of Death Valley, what did they think the fish were that they saw swimming in the cavern pool?

3. Are gene drives always beneficial for the species?

4. What is the name Kolbert gives for the ability for humans to now watch other species go extinct?

5. To what does Kolbert compare the bringing back of a species from the brink of extinction?

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