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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 does Kolbert find at LSU’s Center for River Studies?
(a) Plans for reducing flooding in the delta.
(b) A school of Asian carp.
(c) A model of the delta.
(d) Photographs of the delta.

2. Why are Kolbert and Gates’ plans to meet cancelled?
(a) Both women were too busy.
(b) The institute was under construction.
(c) A huge storm cancelled their plans.
(d) Gates has lesions on her brain she hoped to have treated in Mexico.

3. Why were low-lying parts of New Orleans not abandoned to the water?
(a) After the most recent hurricanes, they recovered on their own.
(b) It did not make sense politically.
(c) It was not necessary.
(d) The locals fought to save their property.

4. What had those living in the Plaquemenes done to protect their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita?
(a) Sunk them deep into the mud.
(b) Lifted them up onto pilings.
(c) Torn them down and moved elsewhere.
(d) Converted their homes into house boats.

5. When did William Lewis Manly take a difficult journey west?
(a) 1819.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1749.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what is the land in the southern region of Louisiana compared?

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

4. What problem does Joe Harvey mention to Kolbert?

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

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