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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Up in the Air: Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do aerosol particles create cooler temperatures?
(a) They cool down dust particles in the air.
(b) They create ice.
(c) They scatter sunlight back to space.
(d) They create snow.

2. What bacteria is included in Kolbert’s genetic modification kit?
(a) Coccus.
(b) Bacillus.
(c) Vibrio.
(d) E-coli.

3. What is unfortunate about carbon, even if emissions are reduced or stopped?
(a) Once in the air, it stays there.
(b) It is always poisonous.
(c) It takes several years to dissolve.
(d) It does not turn to stone easily.

4. 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?
(a) Overfishing.
(b) Bubbles and loud noises.
(c) Electrocution.
(d) Poison.

5. What is wrong with the Wood Screw Pumps in the twenty-four pumping stations that pump water out of the city?
(a) They are not effective at keeping out water.
(b) Many are broken and need to be fixed.
(c) They are difficult to replace.
(d) They are speeding up the sinking of the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kolker’s prediction for New Orleans?

2. One activist that Kolbert mentions says that sometimes doing nothing is better than what?

3. Kolbert says that, without help, most of the carbon dioxide humans emit would turn to stone eventually, called what?

4. In Up in the Air: Chapter 1, Kolbert decides to support what type of service?

5. According to Kolbert, if the Anthropocene’s clearest geological marker is a spike in radioactive particles, what is its clearest biological marker?

(see the answer key)

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