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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 does Kevin Irons, the assistant chief of fisheries at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, feel is the best way to control the carp population?
(a) Poison.
(b) Electrocution.
(c) Overfishing.
(d) Bubbles and loud noises.

2. What is NOT something that Kolbert says human domination over nature has caused?
(a) Dammed and diverted rivers.
(b) Earthquakes.
(c) More species diversity and safer drinking water.
(d) Large amounts of nitrogen and carbon dioxide.

3. What had those living in the Plaquemenes done to protect their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita?
(a) Torn them down and moved elsewhere.
(b) Lifted them up onto pilings.
(c) Sunk them deep into the mud.
(d) Converted their homes into house boats.

4. What are Van Oppen and her students’ plans for coral?
(a) Buy time until the world takes climate change more seriously.
(b) Create new reefs and ecosystems.
(c) Revitalize the reefs that have been lost.
(d) Keep the reefs from dying and shrinking any further.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kolbert expecting to see in the SeaSim in Townsville, Australia?

2. When Manly and the others arrived at the edge of Death Valley, what did they think the fish were that they saw swimming in the cavern pool?

3. In Kolbert’s observations in and near Chicago, Asian carp, when caught, are then processed into what?

4. After a disastrous flood in what year, did the Army Corps of Engineers extend the levees?

5. What animal does Darwin use to support his beliefs about evolution?

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