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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. Darwin’s ideas regarding evolution were first known as what?
(a) Transgender.
(b) Transliteration.
(c) Transfiguration.
(d) Transmutation.

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

3. What is NOT a reason for why Devil’s Hole is a geological oddity?
(a) The pupfish have evolved to survive in the harsh conditions of Devils Hole.
(b) The cavern is narrow in some areas and very deep in others, much like a swimming pool.
(c) It holds water left over from the Pleistocene age.
(d) The fish were washed here when the whole area had more water and have never been able to leave.

4. Who is Edda Aradóttir?
(a) A friend of Kolbert’s.
(b) A solar geoengineer hired by Bill Gates.
(c) One of the thermal engineers in Poland.
(d) The managing director of the geothermal plant.

5. Why is the Kaneohe Bay a prime location for studying and creating super coral?
(a) The coral has never suffered from bleaching.
(b) The coral population has only continued to grow.
(c) It had been a sewage dumping ground but the reef started to revive on its own.
(d) It is filled with coral reefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many trees would have to be planted to remove a significant amount of carbon dioxide?

2. Kolbert describes a carbon scrubbing machine invented by Lackner. To what does she compare it?

3. Allison Macfarlane, former head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is most concerned with what regarding solar geoengineering?

4. Where does Kolbert stay for her last night in Nevada?

5. How long would it take to turn carbon dioxide to stone?

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