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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Consumption and West Nile Virus.
(b) Bird Flu and Swine Flu.
(c) Typhoid and Cholera.
(d) Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever.

2. 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.

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

4. Kolbert jumps to a day when she meets Alex Kolker, a professor at LSU, who has what as a side gig?
(a) Giving walking tours around New Orleans.
(b) Giving lectures at local libraries around New Orleans.
(c) Giving bike tours around New Orleans.
(d) Giving demonstrations to locals of how to protect their homes against flooding in New Orleans.

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

6. How far do coral reefs stretch north and south of the equator?
(a) 30 miles.
(b) 20 degrees.
(c) 50 miles.
(d) 30 degrees.

7. In the beginning of Chapter 2, why does Kolbert fly in a small airplane?
(a) To fly from Chicago 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 get from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.

8. 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.

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

10. Each day at the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure, the gates are raised or lowered, depending on what?
(a) The water level and activity on that particular day.
(b) The direction of the wind on any particular day.
(c) The amount of rain the region as received.
(d) The weather report.

11. 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 cavern is narrow in some areas and very deep in others, much like a swimming pool.
(c) The pupfish have evolved to survive in the harsh conditions of Devils Hole.
(d) The fish were washed here when the whole area had more water and have never been able to leave.

12. What is Kolbert expecting to see in the SeaSim in Townsville, Australia?
(a) Coral spawning.
(b) The changing of colors of coral.
(c) Coral being put under strain.
(d) Small fish that live among the coral.

13. Why do people in Asia not want to buy Asian carp from the U.S.?
(a) They prefer to support their own fisheries.
(b) They prefer fresh fish to frozen.
(c) They do not realize American rivers have Asian carp.
(d) They do not trust American companies.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Kolbert feel about the community of Isle de Jean Charles?

3. What does bleaching do to coral?

4. What are CSOs?

5. When the canal in Chicago reversed the flow of the river, into where did it eventually lead?

(see the answer keys)

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