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

2. The premise behind solar geoengineering is that, if volcanoes naturally cool the earth, what can happen?
(a) More volcanoes would mean cooler global temperatures.
(b) It could be done by man by throwing reflective particles into the stratosphere.
(c) Humans could harness volcanic power.
(d) Volcanic activity on the sun could cool the sun.

3. How far away is the stratosphere from the earth’s surface?
(a) Between 6-1,100 miles.
(b) Between 6,000 - 11,000 feet.
(c) Between 6-11 miles.
(d) Between 16-21 miles.

4. How are rodents often currently killed?
(a) Euthanasia.
(b) Poison.
(c) Traps.
(d) Through hunting.

5. After a disastrous flood in what year, did the Army Corps of Engineers extend the levees?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1927.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What idea did Lackner and his friend Wendt come up with?

3. For how long might you be blind if cane toad poison gets in your eyes?

4. What are wild temperature swings known as?

5. Kolbert tells the reader that the first report on global warming took place in when?

(see the answer key)

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