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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Down the River.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event does Kolbert attend that is to bring awareness and interest in eating carp?
(a) ChefCarp.
(b) Carpapaloosa.
(c) Carp - All You Can Eat!
(d) CarpFest.

2. What is the name of the new era in which Kolbert says we live?
(a) Precambrian.
(b) Jurassic.
(c) Anthropocene.
(d) Paleozoic.

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. How does Kolbert feel about the community of Isle de Jean Charles?
(a) She feels that they should have left years ago.
(b) She understands why no measures are being taken to save it, but she feels terrible for the residents.
(c) She believes the community should move on and forget the island.
(d) She feels outrage for how they have been mistreated.

5. Prior to the digging of the canal, Chicago’s waste ran into the Chicago River and into Lake Michigan, which led to what regular outbreaks?
(a) Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever.
(b) Consumption and West Nile Virus.
(c) Bird Flu and Swine Flu.
(d) Typhoid and Cholera.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two drainage basins were linked with the reversal of the Chicago River and the creation of the Sanitary and Ship Canal?

2. To what does Kolbert compare being hit by a jumping carp?

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

4. What is wrong with the Wood Screw Pumps in the twenty-four pumping stations that pump water out of the city?

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

(see the answer key)

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