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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. Why was Manly’s trip west end up so arduous?
(a) Manly and the argonauts arrived too early 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 arrived too late in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.
(d) Manly and the argonauts got lost during a sand storm.

2. 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) Bubbles and loud noises.
(b) Overfishing.
(c) Poison.
(d) Electrocution.

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

4. Manly and nearly how many argonauts gathered in Salt Lake City to travel together to gold country in northern California?
(a) 50.
(b) 500.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 4,000.

5. How deep is Devil’s Hole at its deepest?
(a) At least 500 feet deep.
(b) At least 5,000 feet deep.
(c) At least 1,500 feet deep.
(d) At least 50 feet deep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kolbert expecting to see in the SeaSim in Townsville, Australia?

2. How did Kolbert first learn of Devil’s Hole?

3. What is the scientific name for the Devil’s Hole pupfish?

4. Why was electric shock chosen to deter the fish?

5. What are CSOs?

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