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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 is the main genetic modification plan for the cane toads in the lab?
(a) To make them non-toxic.
(b) To make them smaller.
(c) To make them glow in the dark.
(d) To make them more particular about what they eat.

2. What is the name Kolbert gives for the ability for humans to now watch other species go extinct?
(a) An observable phenomena.
(b) A timeline to doomsday.
(c) A ticking time bomb to the world's end.
(d) A species travesty.

3. What happened to an engineer in China who used CRISPR on a set of twins?
(a) He was exiled.
(b) He received the Nobel Peace prize.
(c) He was given funding for more studies.
(d) He was put under house arrest.

4. After a course on corals, Ruth Gates moved from where to Jamaica in 1985 to study corals and their symbionts?
(a) Australia.
(b) The U.S.
(c) Ireland.
(d) England.

5. Who is Paul Thomas?
(a) A CRISPR expert.
(b) An employee at Odin.
(c) A toad research expert.
(d) A mouse research expert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kolbert describes a carbon scrubbing machine invented by Lackner. To what does she compare it?

2. Kolbert mentions that effects of the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic and how emissions dropped how much?

3. The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, showed that the majority of possibilities for keeping climate temperatures down require what?

4. When do Kolbert and Van Oppen meet?

5. How deep is Devil’s Hole at its deepest?

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