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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the co-founders of Climeworks meet?
(a) In college.
(b) In a Starbucks.
(c) In a conference.
(d) At the Paris accord.

2. The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, showed that the majority of possibilities for keeping climate temperatures down require what?
(a) Solar scrubbing.
(b) Solar geoengineering.
(c) Negative emissions.
(d) Positive emissions.

3. Kolbert mentions that effects of the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic and how emissions dropped how much?
(a) 7%.
(b) 70%.
(c) 97%.
(d) 17%.

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

5. What is the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere called?
(a) Carbon dioxide releasing.
(b) Negative emissions.
(c) De-dioxification.
(d) Emissions removal.

6. Lackner also believes that dealing with emissions should be similar to dealing with what?
(a) Sewage.
(b) Criminals.
(c) Domesticated animals.
(d) Natural disasters.

7. What is done to make the geothermal plant cleaner that Kolbert visits?
(a) The hydrogen dioxide is dissolved in water and then injected it into the ground.
(b) The hydrogen sulfide is dissolved in water and then injected it into the ground.
(c) The carbon dioxide is dissolved in water and then injected it into the ground.
(d) The carbon monoxide is dissolved in water and then injected it into the ground.

8. Where does it make sense to have a geothermal plant?
(a) Along a seam of active volcanoes.
(b) In high altitude.
(c) In the jungle.
(d) Along a seashore.

9. Who is Paul Thomas?
(a) A CRISPR expert.
(b) An employee at Odin.
(c) A toad research expert.
(d) A mouse research expert.

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

11. What is the main genetic modification plan for the cane toads in the lab?
(a) To make them more particular about what they eat.
(b) To make them glow in the dark.
(c) To make them non-toxic.
(d) To make them smaller.

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

13. How does Tizard hope to teach other animals to avoid the cane toads?
(a) Use glowing toads to scare away other species.
(b) Use the non-lethal toads to teach other animals that cane toads make you sick, so you should not eat them.
(c) Use small, foul-tasting toads to teach other species that these toads do not taste good.
(d) To show other species how scared and hard to find these toads are.

14. What idea did Lackner and his friend Wendt come up with?
(a) Auxons.
(b) Humans are not very intelligent.
(c) Ten billion years.
(d) Ireland.

15. According to Kolbert, who knows for certain how much hotter the world will get before out-and-out disaster becomes inevitable?
(a) No one.
(b) Several top scientists.
(c) God.
(d) Those countries involved in the Paris accord.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were cane toads first introduced outside of their natural environments?

2. What does Kolbert end the chapter wondering about all the burning trash, the acres of glass, the boxes of bumblebees, the vegetables raised on chemicals and captured carbon dioxide?

3. What could be used if a gene drive goes rogue?

4. Where did the house mouse originate?

5. What bacteria is included in Kolbert’s genetic modification kit?

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