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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. Kolbert jumps to a day when she meets Alex Kolker, a professor at LSU, who has what as a side gig?
(a) Giving bike tours around New Orleans.
(b) Giving lectures at local libraries around New Orleans.
(c) Giving walking tours around New Orleans.
(d) Giving demonstrations to locals of how to protect their homes against flooding in New Orleans.
2. How does Kolbert feel about the community of Isle de Jean Charles?
(a) She understands why no measures are being taken to save it, but she feels terrible for the residents.
(b) She believes the community should move on and forget the island.
(c) She feels outrage for how they have been mistreated.
(d) She feels that they should have left years ago.
3. What animal does Darwin use to support his beliefs about evolution?
(a) Lab rats.
(b) Fancy-pigeons.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Gerbals.
4. How did Kolbert first learn of Devil’s Hole?
(a) In a grad course in college.
(b) A crime that was committed there that was considered a felony.
(c) A business trip to Nevada.
(d) From a television advertisement.
5. What are the main causes of the shrinkage of Isle de Jean Charles?
(a) The shore is lacking natural vegetation to keep soil in place.
(b) Multiple hurricanes.
(c) It is slowly sinking due to rising sea levels.
(d) Flood control measures and oil industry digging.
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. 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?
3. What happens if coral is unable to acquire new symbionts after a heatwave?
4. How much land mass has the Isle de Jean Charles lost since the 1950s?
5. Why was Manly’s trip west end up so arduous?
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