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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the original name of New Orleans, as given by Kolbert in this book?
(a) L'isle de Duc de l'Orléans.
(b) NOLA.
(c) Bulbancha.
(d) L’Isle de la Nouvelle Orléans.

2. How does Kolbert feel about the community of Isle de Jean Charles?
(a) She believes the community should move on and forget the island.
(b) She feels that they should have left years ago.
(c) She understands why no measures are being taken to save it, but she feels terrible for the residents.
(d) She feels outrage for how they have been mistreated.

3. What is Kolker’s prediction for New Orleans?
(a) It will no longer look like a boot.
(b) It will eventually look more like an island.
(c) It will eventually sink and disappear.
(d) It will eventually detach and float away.

4. How far away is a fake Devil’s Hole from the real one?
(a) About 50 miles.
(b) About 10 miles.
(c) About 5 miles.
(d) About 1 mile.

5. What is NOT something that Kolbert says human domination over nature has caused?
(a) Earthquakes.
(b) Large amounts of nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
(c) Dammed and diverted rivers.
(d) More species diversity and safer drinking water.

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

7. What is a NOT a technique listed by Kolbert to support species that were brought back from the brink of extinction?
(a) Supplemental feeding.
(b) Catch and release.
(c) Managed burns.
(d) Captive breeding.

8. Kolbert moves onto a visit to the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure located how many miles upriver of Baton Rouge?
(a) 8 miles.
(b) 800 miles.
(c) 80 miles.
(d) 18 miles.

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

10. What problem does Joe Harvey mention to Kolbert?
(a) The flood problem.
(b) The sewage problem.
(c) The carp problem.
(d) The sinking problem.

11. 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 see the Chicago River from the sky.
(c) To get a bird’s eye view of the Plaquemines.
(d) To fly from Chicago to New Orleans.

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

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

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

15. Where is Gates’ institution located?
(a) Off the coast of Oahu, HI.
(b) Off the coast of Sydney, Australia.
(c) Jamaica.
(d) In the Mohave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are CSOs?

2. What is the name Kolbert gives for the ability for humans to now watch other species go extinct?

3. Darwin realized correctly that at the center of every atoll was what?

4. Why is the Kaneohe Bay a prime location for studying and creating super coral?

5. How much land mass has the Isle de Jean Charles lost since the 1950s?

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