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

2. How far do coral reefs stretch north and south of the equator?
(a) 20 degrees.
(b) 30 miles.
(c) 30 degrees.
(d) 50 miles.

3. What is the term for when water bursts through a levee, whether man-made or natural?
(a) A creole.
(b) A water spout.
(c) A crevasse.
(d) A geyser.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When are the eggs harvested and brought back to Devils Hole Jr.?

2. What does bleaching do to coral?

3. Lackner and a friend, Christopher Wendt, met over beers and starting wondering what?

4. Where does Kolbert stay for her last night in Nevada?

5. When the United States won a case against the developer, Cappaert Enterprises, who took over the land?

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