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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What would Lackner and Wendt’s invention do?
(a) It would turn carbon dioxide to stone in a matter of days.
(b) It would send mankind to another planet.
(c) It would create solar panels to power the world and scrub carbon from the atmosphere.
(d) It would shoot small diamond particles into the stratosphere.

4. Why were cane toads first introduced outside of their natural environments?
(a) To keep ponds clear of algae.
(b) To replace another extinct toad species.
(c) To eat fly larvae.
(d) To kill the beetle grubs that were eating sugar cane.

5. Lackner and a friend, Christopher Wendt, met over beers and starting wondering what?
(a) How long it would be until the earth died.
(b) Why no one was coming up with big, crazy ideas anymore.
(c) Why humans are always screwing up.
(d) Where the best beer is brewed.

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

7. 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) Negative emissions.
(b) Solar geoengineering.
(c) Positive emissions.
(d) Solar scrubbing.

8. Who is Edda Aradóttir?
(a) A friend of Kolbert’s.
(b) A solar geoengineer hired by Bill Gates.
(c) The managing director of the geothermal plant.
(d) One of the thermal engineers in Poland.

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

10. What did Lin Schwarzkopf help to invent?
(a) The Toadinator trap.
(b) CATCHA.
(c) Brodifacoum.
(d) CRISPR.

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

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

13. Kolbert describes a carbon scrubbing machine invented by Lackner. To what does she compare it?
(a) A floor lamp.
(b) A semi-trailer.
(c) A coffee table.
(d) A living room couch.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How far underground would carbon dioxide be injected?

3. To keep the temperature increase at a minimum, the world would have to end all emissions by when?

4. Kolbert says that, without help, most of the carbon dioxide humans emit would turn to stone eventually, called what?

5. According to Kolbert, who knows for certain how much hotter the world will get before out-and-out disaster becomes inevitable?

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