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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Into the Wild: Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Kolbert expecting to see in the SeaSim in Townsville, Australia?
(a) The changing of colors of coral.
(b) Coral spawning.
(c) Coral being put under strain.
(d) Small fish that live among the coral.

2. What is wrong with the Wood Screw Pumps in the twenty-four pumping stations that pump water out of the city?
(a) They are speeding up the sinking of the city.
(b) They are not effective at keeping out water.
(c) Many are broken and need to be fixed.
(d) They are difficult to replace.

3. How much of the Caribbean coral disappeared in the 1980s?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 2/3.
(c) 90%.
(d) Over 1/2.

4. Each day at the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure, the gates are raised or lowered, depending on what?
(a) The direction of the wind on any particular day.
(b) The weather report.
(c) The amount of rain the region as received.
(d) The water level and activity on that particular day.

5. When was it determined that the Anthropocene Age began?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1980s.
(c) The 1880s.
(d) The 1930s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away is a fake Devil’s Hole from the real one?

2. Why is the Kaneohe Bay a prime location for studying and creating super coral?

3. What does bleaching do to coral?

4. After a week with Gates, how does Kolbert feel?

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

(see the answer key)

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