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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Up in the Air: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name Kolbert gives for the ability for humans to now watch other species go extinct?
(a) A ticking time bomb to the world's end.
(b) An observable phenomena.
(c) A species travesty.
(d) A timeline to doomsday.

2. What is it called to bring a species back from extinction?
(a) Frankenstein genetics.
(b) Genetic rescue.
(c) Genetic resurrection.
(d) Genetic rebirth.

3. How many of Lackner’s trailer-sized carbon scrubbing units would be needed to significantly reduce the carbon footprint?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 100 million.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 1 billion.

4. To what has gene-drive technology been compared?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut’s ice-nine.
(b) Steven King’s It.
(c) Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.
(d) Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice.

5. After a course on corals, Ruth Gates moved from where to Jamaica in 1985 to study corals and their symbionts?
(a) England.
(b) Ireland.
(c) The U.S.
(d) Australia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Each day at the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure, the gates are raised or lowered, depending on what?

2. What is the scientific name for the Devil’s Hole pupfish?

3. What problem is the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Australia trying to correct?

4. What is done to make the geothermal plant cleaner that Kolbert visits?

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

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