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

2. What had those living in the Plaquemenes done to protect their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita?
(a) Converted their homes into house boats.
(b) Torn them down and moved elsewhere.
(c) Sunk them deep into the mud.
(d) Lifted them up onto pilings.

3. What does Kolbert use to make yeast glow?
(a) A jellyfish gene.
(b) A lava lamp.
(c) Glow in the dark gel.
(d) Fluorescent light.

4. 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) 80 or 90 years ago.
(c) 8 or 9 years ago.
(d) 800 or 900 years ago.

5. In Kolbert’s observations in and near Chicago, Asian carp, when caught, are then processed into what?
(a) Fish patties.
(b) Pet food.
(c) Fertilizer.
(d) Gefilte fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far underground would carbon dioxide be injected?

2. What does Kevin Irons, the assistant chief of fisheries at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, feel is the best way to control the carp population?

3. What event does Kolbert attend that is to bring awareness and interest in eating carp?

4. In Down the River Chapter 1, what examples of metaphors does Elizabeth Kolbert give involving rivers?

5. Manly and nearly how many argonauts gathered in Salt Lake City to travel together to gold country in northern California?

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