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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. In Down the River Chapter 1, what examples of metaphors does Elizabeth Kolbert give involving rivers?
(a) Rivers are metaphors for loneliness.
(b) Rivers are metaphors for all the problems that humans have caused.
(c) Rivers are metaphors for pollution, destruction, and decay.
(d) Rivers are metaphors for depth, reflection, and life.
2. Why was the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure created?
(a) To redirect the flow of the Atchafalaya.
(b) To dam up the water coming from the Mississippi River.
(c) To attempt to control a tributary of the Mississippi River called the Atchafalaya.
(d) To attempt to control the Old River.
3. What happens if coral is unable to acquire new symbionts after a heatwave?
(a) They turn white.
(b) They begin to shrink.
(c) They grow lonely.
(d) They starve to death.
4. How much land mass has the Isle de Jean Charles lost since the 1950s?
(a) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to five square miles.
(b) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to fifteen square miles.
(c) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to half a square mile.
(d) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to twenty-five square miles.
5. Why are Kolbert and Gates’ plans to meet cancelled?
(a) Both women were too busy.
(b) A huge storm cancelled their plans.
(c) The institute was under construction.
(d) Gates has lesions on her brain she hoped to have treated in Mexico.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a NOT a technique listed by Kolbert to support species that were brought back from the brink of extinction?
2. What is NOT something that Kolbert says human domination over nature has caused?
3. When the canal in Chicago reversed the flow of the river, into where did it eventually lead?
4. What two events sped up the drop in pupfish numbers?
5. With whom does Kolbert ride in a boat far down along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal?
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