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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 two events sped up the drop in pupfish numbers?
(a) Regular above ground nuclear blasts and the pumping of water for a new community.
(b) An earthquake and drought.
(c) Rising sea levels and air temperatures.
(d) Over-crowding of species and an overgrown fungus.

2. 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 cleaning the sewage canal.
(b) The engineer in charge or rerouting the river.
(c) The engineer in charge of the electric fish barriers.
(d) The engineer in charge of the levees.

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

4. What are CSOs?
(a) College of South Orleans.
(b) Collection Systems Overflows.
(c) Combined Sewer Overflows.
(d) Centers for Sewage Output.

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) Consumption and West Nile Virus.
(b) Typhoid and Cholera.
(c) Bird Flu and Swine Flu.
(d) Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the time 2016’s global bleaching event ended in 2017, what percentage of the Great Barrier Reef was affected?

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

3. Why was the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure created?

4. Darwin realized correctly that at the center of every atoll was what?

5. What happens if coral is unable to acquire new symbionts after a heatwave?

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