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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. According to Kolbert, why are mice perfect lab animals?
(a) They are cheap and easy to care for.
(b) They are clean and obedient.
(c) They are small and gentle.
(d) Their genetics are well known and studied.

2. What do Tizard and his partner hope to accomplish regarding cane toad eggs?
(a) Make the eggs impossible to fertilize.
(b) Make them hard to swallow.
(c) Make them less abundant.
(d) Make them edible.

3. What did the cannibal snails cause in Hawaii?
(a) Mudslides.
(b) A tropical avalanche.
(c) An extinction spree.
(d) An extinction avalanche.

4. Why is one of the locals at the town hall meeting against the creation of holes in the levees?
(a) The holes are only a short-term solution.
(b) Anything man-made leads to trouble.
(c) There are not enough holes.
(d) The holes will let in too much water.

5. What is Brodifacoum?
(a) A trap used to catch cane toads.
(b) An anticoagulant used to kill mice.
(c) A powerful cleaning and disinfecting product.
(d) An antibiotic used to heal sick animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mark Tizard want the general population to know about genetic modification?

2. What is wrong with the Wood Screw Pumps in the twenty-four pumping stations that pump water out of the city?

3. How deep is Devil’s Hole at its deepest?

4. Which Dr. Suess book does Kolbert compare biological interventions?

5. When did William Lewis Manly take a difficult journey west?

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