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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two drainage basins were linked with the reversal of the Chicago River and the creation of the Sanitary and Ship Canal?
(a) The Mississippi River and Great Lakes.
(b) The Mississippi River and Chicago River.
(c) The Great Plains and the Great Lakes.
(d) The Chicago River and Great Lakes.

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

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

4. To what does Kolbert compare the bringing back of a species from the brink of extinction?
(a) Reincarnation.
(b) God Syndrome.
(c) A heavenly miracle.
(d) Stockholm Syndrome.

5. To what island does Kolbert compare desert ecosystems?
(a) Galápagos.
(b) The Great Plains.
(c) The Arctic.
(d) The Amazon.

6. 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%.

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

8. Why were low-lying parts of New Orleans not abandoned to the water?
(a) It did not make sense politically.
(b) It was not necessary.
(c) The locals fought to save their property.
(d) After the most recent hurricanes, they recovered on their own.

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

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

11. What had those living in the Plaquemenes done to protect their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita?
(a) Sunk them deep into the mud.
(b) Converted their homes into house boats.
(c) Lifted them up onto pilings.
(d) Torn them down and moved elsewhere.

12. After a course on corals, Ruth Gates moved from where to Jamaica in 1985 to study corals and their symbionts?
(a) Ireland.
(b) England.
(c) The U.S.
(d) Australia.

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

14. Why are Kolbert and Gates’ plans to meet cancelled?
(a) The institute was under construction.
(b) Both women were too busy.
(c) Gates has lesions on her brain she hoped to have treated in Mexico.
(d) A huge storm cancelled their plans.

15. What animal does Darwin use to support his beliefs about evolution?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Gerbals.
(c) Fancy-pigeons.
(d) Lab rats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is one of the locals at the town hall meeting against the creation of holes in the levees?

2. What is the term for when water bursts through a levee, whether man-made or natural?

3. Where is Gates’ institution located?

4. 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?

5. Why was Manly’s trip west end up so arduous?

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