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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. What are two species that Revive & Restore hope to resurrect?
(a) The dinosaur and the Woolley mammoth.
(b) The passenger pigeon and the American chestnut tree.
(c) The passenger pigeon and the dodo bird.
(d) The dodo bird and the American chestnut tree.

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

3. By the time 2016’s global bleaching event ended in 2017, what percentage of the Great Barrier Reef was affected?
(a) Over 90%.
(b) Over 75%.
(c) Over 50%.
(d) Just under 90%.

4. To keep the temperature increase at a minimum, the world would have to end all emissions by when?
(a) The next few years.
(b) The next five decades.
(c) The next decade.
(d) The next century.

5. Why do commercial jets fly in the stratosphere?
(a) To avoid turbulence.
(b) To save on fuel.
(c) To avoid mid-air collisions.
(d) To allow for the seatbelt sign to go off.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 2, why does Kolbert fly in a small airplane?

2. Where did the house mouse originate?

3. In Kolbert’s observations in and near Chicago, Asian carp, when caught, are then processed into what?

4. Kolbert goes into detail about the stratosphere as the middle layer between what two layers?

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

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