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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Tizard and his partner hope to accomplish regarding cane toad eggs?
(a) Make them edible.
(b) Make them less abundant.
(c) Make them hard to swallow.
(d) Make the eggs impossible to fertilize.

2. Where is the geothermal plant located that Kolbert visits in Up in the Air: Chapter 1?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Poland.
(c) China.
(d) Iceland.

3. What is NOT a reason given for why taking carbon dioxide out of a gas stream is difficult?
(a) It must be done on a massive scale.
(b) It is expensive.
(c) Disposal of large amounts of carbon dioxide underground would be tricky.
(d) It is a challenging and dangerous technique.

4. What problem is the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Australia trying to correct?
(a) Deforestation.
(b) Non-native and invasive species of coral.
(c) The overpopulation of a non-native species of toad.
(d) Severe drought and wildfires.

5. How are rodents often currently killed?
(a) Poison.
(b) Euthanasia.
(c) Traps.
(d) Through hunting.

6. In Up in the Air: Chapter 1, Kolbert decides to support what type of service?
(a) One that scrubs carbon emissions from the air.
(b) One that sends SAILs into the stratosphere.
(c) One that runs greenhouses on carbon dioxide emissions.
(d) One that sends diamonds into the stratosphere.

7. Which Dr. Suess book does Kolbert compare biological interventions?
(a) The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
(b) The Cat in the Hat.
(c) Horton Hears a Who.
(d) Fox in Sox.

8. What mammals were first experimented on with CRISPR and the gene drive?
(a) Mice.
(b) Toads.
(c) Birds.
(d) Rats.

9. What does Mark Tizard want the general population to know about genetic modification?
(a) It is an exciting branch of bioengineering that needs to be further explored.
(b) It is scary but necessary.
(c) It is a new and possibly dangerous science.
(d) It has been taking place forever, as we live in a genetically modified environment.

10. What combination does Kolbert mention that could make cane toads non-lethal and coral heat-resistant?
(a) CRISPR used in conjunction with the power of outliar genes.
(b) CRISPR used in conjunction with the power of outlaw genes.
(c) CRISPR used in conjunction with the power of rogue genes.
(d) CRISPR used in conjunction with the power of dominant genes.

11. What is unfortunate about carbon, even if emissions are reduced or stopped?
(a) Once in the air, it stays there.
(b) It takes several years to dissolve.
(c) It is always poisonous.
(d) It does not turn to stone easily.

12. Kolbert tells the reader that geothermal plants are relatively clean but do produce what gases?
(a) Hydrogen dioxide and carbon dioxide.
(b) Hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide.
(c) Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.
(d) Hydrogen monoxide and carbon monoxide.

13. What are two species that Revive & Restore hope to resurrect?
(a) The passenger pigeon and the American chestnut tree.
(b) The dinosaur and the Woolley mammoth.
(c) The passenger pigeon and the dodo bird.
(d) The dodo bird and the American chestnut tree.

14. Lackner realized back in the 1970s what is now well-known that the world is decades away from having what kind of working reactor?
(a) Carbon.
(b) Emissions.
(c) Hydrogen.
(d) Fusion.

15. What is NOT one of the problems mentioned regarding cane toads?
(a) They eat almost anything.
(b) They are toxic.
(c) They multiple very quickly.
(d) Their mating call is very annoying and loud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it called when the rock from underground is brought up to meet the carbon dioxide, rather than the other way around?

2. How did the co-founders of Climeworks meet?

3. When do some people believe that humans began altering the atmosphere, called the early Anthropocene hypothesis?

4. How many of Lackner’s trailer-sized carbon scrubbing units would be needed to significantly reduce the carbon footprint?

5. What did Lin Schwarzkopf help to invent?

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