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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is wrong with the Wood Screw Pumps in the twenty-four pumping stations that pump water out of the city?
(a) They are speeding up the sinking of the city.
(b) Many are broken and need to be fixed.
(c) They are not effective at keeping out water.
(d) They are difficult to replace.

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

10. What is the term for when water bursts through a levee, whether man-made or natural?
(a) A crevasse.
(b) A geyser.
(c) A water spout.
(d) A creole.

11. How much land mass has the Isle de Jean Charles lost since the 1950s?
(a) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to five square miles.
(b) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to half a square mile.
(c) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to fifteen square miles.
(d) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to twenty-five square miles.

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

13. 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 Chicago River and Great Lakes.
(c) The Mississippi River and Chicago River.
(d) The Great Plains and the Great Lakes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kolbert stay for her last night in Nevada?

2. When Manly and the others arrived at the edge of Death Valley, what did they think the fish were that they saw swimming in the cavern pool?

3. What is Kolbert expecting to see in the SeaSim in Townsville, Australia?

4. How did Ruth Gates fall in love with the ocean?

5. How did Kolbert first learn of Devil’s Hole?

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