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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 name Kolbert gives for the ability for humans to now watch other species go extinct?
(a) An observable phenomena.
(b) A timeline to doomsday.
(c) A species travesty.
(d) A ticking time bomb to the world's end.

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

3. Why are Kolbert and Gates’ plans to meet cancelled?
(a) The institute was under construction.
(b) Gates has lesions on her brain she hoped to have treated in Mexico.
(c) A huge storm cancelled their plans.
(d) Both women were too busy.

4. Each day at the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure, the gates are raised or lowered, depending on what?
(a) The direction of the wind on any particular day.
(b) The weather report.
(c) The amount of rain the region as received.
(d) The water level and activity on that particular day.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mark Tizard want the general population to know about genetic modification?

2. How many of Lackner’s trailer-sized carbon scrubbing units would be needed to significantly reduce the carbon footprint?

3. What do Tizard and his partner hope to accomplish regarding cane toad eggs?

4. Where is the geothermal plant located that Kolbert visits in Up in the Air: Chapter 1?

5. Kolbert mentions that effects of the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic and how emissions dropped how much?

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