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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. In Into the Wild: Chapter 3, why does Kolbert begin with an explanation of the Norse god, Odin?
(a) To compare him to the powers of nature.
(b) To compare him to the genetic-engineering company, Odin.
(c) To show the similarities between gods and humans.
(d) To show how dangerous it is to play God.

2. To what is the land in the southern region of Louisiana compared?
(a) A river of mud.
(b) Slime.
(c) Warm Jell-O.
(d) Play-doh.

3. 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?
(a) The engineer in charge of the electric fish barriers.
(b) The engineer in charge of cleaning the sewage canal.
(c) The engineer in charge or rerouting the river.
(d) The engineer in charge of the levees.

4. Why are Kolbert and Gates’ plans to meet cancelled?
(a) A huge storm cancelled their plans.
(b) Gates has lesions on her brain she hoped to have treated in Mexico.
(c) The institute was under construction.
(d) Both women were too busy.

5. What did Lin Schwarzkopf help to invent?
(a) Brodifacoum.
(b) CRISPR.
(c) CATCHA.
(d) The Toadinator trap.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. How much land mass has the Isle de Jean Charles lost since the 1950s?

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

5. Darwin realized correctly that at the center of every atoll was what?

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