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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. 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?
(a) Typhoid and Cholera.
(b) Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever.
(c) Bird Flu and Swine Flu.
(d) Consumption and West Nile Virus.

2. How far underground would carbon dioxide be injected?
(a) 10 miles.
(b) 1 mile.
(c) 1/2 mile.
(d) A few inches.

3. Global temperatures have increased how many degrees Fahrenheit since Watt’s day?
(a) 1.
(b) 1.5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

4. What are CSOs?
(a) College of South Orleans.
(b) Combined Sewer Overflows.
(c) Centers for Sewage Output.
(d) Collection Systems Overflows.

5. What happens if coral is unable to acquire new symbionts after a heatwave?
(a) They starve to death.
(b) They turn white.
(c) They begin to shrink.
(d) They grow lonely.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Edda Aradóttir?

2. Why was Manly’s trip west end up so arduous?

3. What happened to an engineer in China who used CRISPR on a set of twins?

4. What does Kolbert use to make yeast glow?

5. What is the name Kolbert gives for the ability for humans to now watch other species go extinct?

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