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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Manly’s trip west end up so arduous?
(a) Manly and the argonauts got lost during a sand storm.
(b) Manly and the argonauts arrived too early in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.
(c) Manly and the argonauts refused to use maps and ended up taking a more difficult path.
(d) Manly and the argonauts arrived too late in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.

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 of the levees.
(b) The engineer in charge or rerouting the river.
(c) The engineer in charge of cleaning the sewage canal.
(d) The engineer in charge of the electric fish barriers.

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

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

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

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

7. In Kolbert’s observations in and near Chicago, Asian carp, when caught, are then processed into what?
(a) Fertilizer.
(b) Gefilte fish.
(c) Fish patties.
(d) Pet food.

8. Darwin realized correctly that at the center of every atoll was what?
(a) A continental Slope.
(b) A fault line.
(c) A deep cavern.
(d) An extinct volcano.

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

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

11. Prior to the digging of the canal, Chicago’s waste ran into the Chicago River and into Lake Michigan, which led to what regular outbreaks?
(a) Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever.
(b) Typhoid and Cholera.
(c) Bird Flu and Swine Flu.
(d) Consumption and West Nile Virus.

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

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

14. What does Kolbert find at LSU’s Center for River Studies?
(a) A model of the delta.
(b) Plans for reducing flooding in the delta.
(c) A school of Asian carp.
(d) Photographs of the delta.

15. What book does Kolbert say led to the introduction of Asian carp in U.S. rivers?
(a) How to Control Non-Native Species.
(b) The evils of Pesticides.
(c) Rachel The Control of Nature.
(d) Fish Are Our Friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two drainage basins were linked with the reversal of the Chicago River and the creation of the Sanitary and Ship Canal?

2. What is Kolker’s prediction for New Orleans?

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

4. How deep is Devil’s Hole at its deepest?

5. What does Kevin Irons, the assistant chief of fisheries at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, feel is the best way to control the carp population?

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