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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 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 was not necessary.
(c) The locals fought to save their property.
(d) It did not make sense politically.

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

3. How far do coral reefs stretch north and south of the equator?
(a) 20 degrees.
(b) 30 degrees.
(c) 30 miles.
(d) 50 miles.

4. What are CSOs?
(a) Centers for Sewage Output.
(b) Collection Systems Overflows.
(c) College of South Orleans.
(d) Combined Sewer Overflows.

5. 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?
(a) The engineer in charge or rerouting the river.
(b) The engineer in charge of the electric fish barriers.
(c) The engineer in charge of the levees.
(d) The engineer in charge of cleaning the sewage canal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens if coral is unable to acquire new symbionts after a heatwave?

2. Darwin realized correctly that at the center of every atoll was what?

3. How much of the Caribbean coral disappeared in the 1980s?

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

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

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