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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. When do some people believe that humans began altering the atmosphere, called the early Anthropocene hypothesis?
(a) 80 or 90 years ago.
(b) 8,000 or 9,000 years ago.
(c) 8 or 9 years ago.
(d) 800 or 900 years ago.

2. Why was Manly’s trip west end up so arduous?
(a) Manly and the argonauts arrived too late in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.
(b) Manly and the argonauts refused to use maps and ended up taking a more difficult path.
(c) Manly and the argonauts arrived too early in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.
(d) Manly and the argonauts got lost during a sand storm.

3. Manly and nearly how many argonauts gathered in Salt Lake City to travel together to gold country in northern California?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 50.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 500.

4. Why is the Kaneohe Bay a prime location for studying and creating super coral?
(a) The coral population has only continued to grow.
(b) It is filled with coral reefs.
(c) It had been a sewage dumping ground but the reef started to revive on its own.
(d) The coral has never suffered from bleaching.

5. What is done to make the geothermal plant cleaner that Kolbert visits?
(a) The carbon monoxide is dissolved in water and then injected it into the ground.
(b) The hydrogen sulfide is dissolved in water and then injected it into the ground.
(c) The carbon dioxide is dissolved in water and then injected it into the ground.
(d) The hydrogen dioxide is dissolved in water and then injected it into the ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the geothermal plant located that Kolbert visits in Up in the Air: Chapter 1?

2. To keep the temperature increase at a minimum, the world would have to end all emissions by when?

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?

4. What animal does Darwin use to support his beliefs about evolution?

5. What does Kolbert say an expert can do with the tiny air bubbles found in layers of ice?

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