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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 is Kolker’s prediction for New Orleans?
(a) It will eventually detach and float away.
(b) It will eventually look more like an island.
(c) It will no longer look like a boot.
(d) It will eventually sink and disappear.

2. After a disastrous flood in what year, did the Army Corps of Engineers extend the levees?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1927.

3. What does Kevin Irons, the assistant chief of fisheries at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, feel is the best way to control the carp population?
(a) Electrocution.
(b) Bubbles and loud noises.
(c) Poison.
(d) Overfishing.

4. In Kolbert’s observations in and near Chicago, Asian carp, when caught, are then processed into what?
(a) Pet food.
(b) Gefilte fish.
(c) Fertilizer.
(d) Fish patties.

5. What is NOT something that Kolbert says human domination over nature has caused?
(a) Large amounts of nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
(b) Earthquakes.
(c) More species diversity and safer drinking water.
(d) Dammed and diverted rivers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What had those living in the Plaquemenes done to protect their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita?

3. How much land mass has the Isle de Jean Charles lost since the 1950s?

4. How does Kolbert feel about the community of Isle de Jean Charles?

5. What event does Kolbert attend that is to bring awareness and interest in eating carp?

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