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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. Where does Kolbert stay for her last night in Nevada?
(a) The Bellagio.
(b) The Venetian.
(c) A Native American reservation.
(d) The Paris.

2. Kolbert moves onto a visit to the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure located how many miles upriver of Baton Rouge?
(a) 80 miles.
(b) 8 miles.
(c) 800 miles.
(d) 18 miles.

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

4. What are Van Oppen and her students’ plans for coral?
(a) Revitalize the reefs that have been lost.
(b) Keep the reefs from dying and shrinking any further.
(c) Create new reefs and ecosystems.
(d) Buy time until the world takes climate change more seriously.

5. After a course on corals, Ruth Gates moved from where to Jamaica in 1985 to study corals and their symbionts?
(a) Australia.
(b) Ireland.
(c) The U.S.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What had those living in the Plaquemenes done to protect their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita?

3. 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?

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

5. In Down the River Chapter 1, what examples of metaphors does Elizabeth Kolbert give involving rivers?

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