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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 removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere called?
(a) Emissions removal.
(b) De-dioxification.
(c) Negative emissions.
(d) Carbon dioxide releasing.

2. To what does Kolbert compare the bringing back of a species from the brink of extinction?
(a) Reincarnation.
(b) Stockholm Syndrome.
(c) A heavenly miracle.
(d) God Syndrome.

3. Lackner and a friend, Christopher Wendt, met over beers and starting wondering what?
(a) How long it would be until the earth died.
(b) Why no one was coming up with big, crazy ideas anymore.
(c) Where the best beer is brewed.
(d) Why humans are always screwing up.

4. When did William Lewis Manly take a difficult journey west?
(a) 1819.
(b) 1749.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1849.

5. To what island does Kolbert compare desert ecosystems?
(a) The Amazon.
(b) Galápagos.
(c) The Arctic.
(d) The Great Plains.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kolbert describes a carbon scrubbing machine invented by Lackner. To what does she compare it?

2. What two events sped up the drop in pupfish numbers?

3. What had those living in the Plaquemenes done to protect their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita?

4. Are gene drives always beneficial for the species?

5. Who is Edda Aradóttir?

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