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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 long do aerosol particles stay up in the stratosphere?
(a) Several hours.
(b) Several years.
(c) Several weeks.
(d) Several days.

2. What is it called to bring a species back from extinction?
(a) Genetic resurrection.
(b) Frankenstein genetics.
(c) Genetic rebirth.
(d) Genetic rescue.

3. What place is NOT mentioned for having similar surprising information to what is learned from ice cores?
(a) Pollen deposits from Italy.
(b) Mammoth tusks in Montana.
(c) Stalagmites from a Chinese cave.
(d) Sediments in the Arabian Sea.

4. How many of Lackner’s trailer-sized carbon scrubbing units would be needed to significantly reduce the carbon footprint?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 1 billion.
(c) 100 million.
(d) 100,000.

5. What does Dan Schrag, director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, say is the job of the scientist?
(a) To save the planet.
(b) To describe the world as accurately as possible.
(c) To tell people the good news.
(d) To enforce regulations to protect the environment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Sir David King, a highly-respected British chemist, was working with the Centre for Climate Repair to shoot what over the arctic ice to reduce the amount of sunlight that hits the ice?

3. What does Kolbert say an expert can do with the tiny air bubbles found in layers of ice?

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

5. When Kolbert acts as a skeptic when interviewing Keith, what does he tell her?

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