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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 are the main causes of the shrinkage of Isle de Jean Charles?
(a) Flood control measures and oil industry digging.
(b) The shore is lacking natural vegetation to keep soil in place.
(c) It is slowly sinking due to rising sea levels.
(d) Multiple hurricanes.

2. Why was the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure created?
(a) To attempt to control the Old River.
(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 redirect the flow of the Atchafalaya.

3. In Kolbert’s observations in and near Chicago, Asian carp, when caught, are then processed into what?
(a) Fertilizer.
(b) Fish patties.
(c) Pet food.
(d) Gefilte fish.

4. After a disastrous flood in what year, did the Army Corps of Engineers extend the levees?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1917.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After a course on corals, Ruth Gates moved from where to Jamaica in 1985 to study corals and their symbionts?

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

3. When are the eggs harvested and brought back to Devils Hole Jr.?

4. What two events sped up the drop in pupfish numbers?

5. When the United States won a case against the developer, Cappaert Enterprises, who took over the land?

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