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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 does Tizard hope to teach other animals to avoid the cane toads?
(a) Use small, foul-tasting toads to teach other species that these toads do not taste good.
(b) Use glowing toads to scare away other species.
(c) Use the non-lethal toads to teach other animals that cane toads make you sick, so you should not eat them.
(d) To show other species how scared and hard to find these toads are.

2. When do some people believe that humans began altering the atmosphere, called the early Anthropocene hypothesis?
(a) 8,000 or 9,000 years ago.
(b) 8 or 9 years ago.
(c) 800 or 900 years ago.
(d) 80 or 90 years ago.

3. After a week with Gates, how does Kolbert feel?
(a) Sad.
(b) Angry.
(c) Inspired.
(d) Nervous.

4. What act led to the introduction of Asian carp?
(a) Clean Water Act.
(b) Nature Preservation Act.
(c) Save the Fish Act.
(d) Return to Nature Act.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens if coral is unable to acquire new symbionts after a heatwave?

2. How many species are thought to live in reefs around the world?

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

4. Which Dr. Suess book does Kolbert compare biological interventions?

5. When the canal in Chicago reversed the flow of the river, into where did it eventually lead?

(see the answer key)

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