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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the United States won a case against the developer, Cappaert Enterprises, who took over the land?
(a) The Fish and Wildlife Service.
(b) The National Parks Department.
(c) The Fish and Game Service.
(d) The Sierra Club.

2. When Kolbert visits the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ location in Chicago soon after her cruise down the sewage canal, she meets with whom?
(a) The engineer in charge or rerouting the river.
(b) The engineer in charge of cleaning the sewage canal.
(c) The engineer in charge of the levees.
(d) The engineer in charge of the electric fish barriers.

3. In the beginning of Chapter 2, why does Kolbert fly in a small airplane?
(a) To get from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
(b) To fly from Chicago to New Orleans.
(c) To get a bird’s eye view of the Plaquemines.
(d) To see the Chicago River from the sky.

4. What does bleaching do to coral?
(a) It causes it to become brittle.
(b) It kills the coral.
(c) It detaches the symbionts from the coral.
(d) It breaks down the relationship between coral and their symbionts.

5. What act led to the introduction of Asian carp?
(a) Clean Water Act.
(b) Save the Fish Act.
(c) Nature Preservation Act.
(d) Return to Nature Act.

6. When the canal in Chicago reversed the flow of the river, into where did it eventually lead?
(a) The Atlantic Ocean.
(b) The Pacific Ocean.
(c) The St. Lawrence River.
(d) The Gulf of Mexico.

7. Manly and nearly how many argonauts gathered in Salt Lake City to travel together to gold country in northern California?
(a) 50.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 4,000.

8. When do Kolbert and Van Oppen meet?
(a) Almost a year after Gates’ death.
(b) When Kolbert first met Gates.
(c) After a year of bleached coral.
(d) At a conference for marine biologists.

9. How did Kolbert first learn of Devil’s Hole?
(a) In a grad course in college.
(b) A crime that was committed there that was considered a felony.
(c) A business trip to Nevada.
(d) From a television advertisement.

10. What happens if coral is unable to acquire new symbionts after a heatwave?
(a) They grow lonely.
(b) They begin to shrink.
(c) They turn white.
(d) They starve to death.

11. What is the scientific name for the Devil’s Hole pupfish?
(a) Cyprinodon morte.
(b) Cyprinodon diavolo.
(c) Cyprinodon diabolis.
(d) Cyprinodon diabolo.

12. What are CSOs?
(a) Centers for Sewage Output.
(b) College of South Orleans.
(c) Combined Sewer Overflows.
(d) Collection Systems Overflows.

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

14. By the time 2016’s global bleaching event ended in 2017, what percentage of the Great Barrier Reef was affected?
(a) Over 50%.
(b) Over 90%.
(c) Over 75%.
(d) Just under 90%.

15. Why was the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure created?
(a) To attempt to control the Old River.
(b) To redirect the flow of the Atchafalaya.
(c) To attempt to control a tributary of the Mississippi River called the Atchafalaya.
(d) To dam up the water coming from the Mississippi River.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does Joe Harvey mention to Kolbert?

2. When was it determined that the Anthropocene Age began?

3. Why were low-lying parts of New Orleans not abandoned to the water?

4. Darwin’s ideas regarding evolution were first known as what?

5. How far do coral reefs stretch north and south of the equator?

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