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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. How did Kolbert first learn of Devil’s Hole?
(a) A business trip to Nevada.
(b) In a grad course in college.
(c) From a television advertisement.
(d) A crime that was committed there that was considered a felony.

2. How did Ruth Gates fall in love with the ocean?
(a) Growing up near the ocean.
(b) Summers spent by the sea.
(c) Watching TV as a kid.
(d) Classes at the zoo as a kid.

3. What book does Kolbert say led to the introduction of Asian carp in U.S. rivers?
(a) How to Control Non-Native Species.
(b) Fish Are Our Friends.
(c) The evils of Pesticides.
(d) Rachel The Control of Nature.

4. 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 got lost during a sand storm.
(d) Manly and the argonauts arrived too early in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.

5. Kolbert jumps to a day when she meets Alex Kolker, a professor at LSU, who has what as a side gig?
(a) Giving walking tours around New Orleans.
(b) Giving lectures at local libraries around New Orleans.
(c) Giving demonstrations to locals of how to protect their homes against flooding in New Orleans.
(d) Giving bike tours around New Orleans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a reason for why Devil’s Hole is a geological oddity?

2. What is Kolker’s prediction for New Orleans?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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