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

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

3. Why is one of the locals at the town hall meeting against the creation of holes in the levees?
(a) Anything man-made leads to trouble.
(b) There are not enough holes.
(c) The holes will let in too much water.
(d) The holes are only a short-term solution.

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

5. 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 arrived too late in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.
(c) Manly and the argonauts refused to use maps and ended up taking a more difficult path.
(d) Manly and the argonauts got lost during a sand storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was it determined that the Anthropocene Age began?

2. What was the original name of New Orleans, as given by Kolbert in this book?

3. What are Van Oppen and her students’ plans for coral?

4. What act led to the introduction of Asian carp?

5. Each day at the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure, the gates are raised or lowered, depending on what?

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