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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. Kolbert jumps to a day when she meets Alex Kolker, a professor at LSU, who has what as a side gig?
(a) Giving lectures at local libraries around New Orleans.
(b) Giving demonstrations to locals of how to protect their homes against flooding in New Orleans.
(c) Giving walking tours around New Orleans.
(d) Giving bike tours around New Orleans.

2. Manly and nearly how many argonauts gathered in Salt Lake City to travel together to gold country in northern California?
(a) 500.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 50.

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

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

5. What combination does Kolbert mention that could make cane toads non-lethal and coral heat-resistant?
(a) CRISPR used in conjunction with the power of rogue genes.
(b) CRISPR used in conjunction with the power of outliar genes.
(c) CRISPR used in conjunction with the power of dominant genes.
(d) CRISPR used in conjunction with the power of outlaw genes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two drainage basins were linked with the reversal of the Chicago River and the creation of the Sanitary and Ship Canal?

2. How does Kolbert feel about the community of Isle de Jean Charles?

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

4. 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?

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

(see the answer key)

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