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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Into the Wild: Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure created?
(a) To attempt to control a tributary of the Mississippi River called the Atchafalaya.
(b) To redirect the flow of the Atchafalaya.
(c) To dam up the water coming from the Mississippi River.
(d) To attempt to control the Old River.

2. Why is the Kaneohe Bay a prime location for studying and creating super coral?
(a) It is filled with coral reefs.
(b) It had been a sewage dumping ground but the reef started to revive on its own.
(c) The coral population has only continued to grow.
(d) The coral has never suffered from bleaching.

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

4. What problem does Joe Harvey mention to Kolbert?
(a) The sinking problem.
(b) The carp problem.
(c) The flood problem.
(d) The sewage problem.

5. What is the mouse called that would make it so only male mice survived?
(a) An X-Factor Mouse.
(b) A Y-Power Mouse.
(c) A Y-Yield Mouse.
(d) An X-Shredder mouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prior to the digging of the canal, Chicago’s waste ran into the Chicago River and into Lake Michigan, which led to what regular outbreaks?

2. When do Kolbert and Van Oppen meet?

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

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

5. According to Kolbert, if the Anthropocene’s clearest geological marker is a spike in radioactive particles, what is its clearest biological marker?

(see the answer key)

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