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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many trees would have to be planted to remove a significant amount of carbon dioxide?
(a) A million.
(b) A trillion.
(c) 900,000 thousand.
(d) A billion.

3. 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.

4. What is Brodifacoum?
(a) An antibiotic used to heal sick animals.
(b) An anticoagulant used to kill mice.
(c) A powerful cleaning and disinfecting product.
(d) A trap used to catch cane toads.

5. What is the mouse called that would make it so only male mice survived?
(a) A Y-Yield Mouse.
(b) An X-Shredder mouse.
(c) A Y-Power Mouse.
(d) An X-Factor Mouse.

6. To what has gene-drive technology been compared?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut’s ice-nine.
(b) Steven King’s It.
(c) Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice.
(d) Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.

7. Kolbert talks about a trip she took to Zurich, Switzerland, where she visited a Climeworks facility; what was done with the carbon dioxide?
(a) It was used to make stone fr building.
(b) It was used to feed a greenhouse full of vegetables.
(c) It was used to fuel cars.
(d) It was used to burn trash.

8. What is it called when the rock from underground is brought up to meet the carbon dioxide, rather than the other way around?
(a) Enhanced weathering.
(b) Enhanced scrubbing.
(c) Chemical scrubbing.
(d) Chemical weathering.

9. Are gene drives always beneficial for the species?
(a) Yes, always.
(b) No, never.
(c) Half and half.
(d) No, not necessarily.

10. What does Kolbert use to make yeast glow?
(a) A jellyfish gene.
(b) A lava lamp.
(c) Fluorescent light.
(d) Glow in the dark gel.

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

12. What is CRISPR?
(a) An air fryer.
(b) A series of genetic testing.
(c) A technique for breeding species.
(d) A collection of techniques used to make it easier to manipulate DNA.

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

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

15. What did Lackner found in 2014 at ASU?
(a) The Center for Negative Carbon Emissions.
(b) The Center for Disease Control.
(c) The Center for Global Cooling.
(d) The Center for Solar Geoengineering Studies.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kolbert, why are mice perfect lab animals?

2. What was Klaus Lackner hired to study in the 1970s, which was supposed to be the answer to the emissions problem?

3. What would Lackner and Wendt’s invention do?

4. What do Tizard and his partner hope to accomplish regarding cane toad eggs?

5. What did the cannibal snails cause in Hawaii?

(see the answer keys)

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