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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Kolbert, if the Anthropocene’s clearest geological marker is a spike in radioactive particles, what is its clearest biological marker?
(a) A spike in disease.
(b) A decline in disease.
(c) A decline in rodents.
(d) A spike in rodents.

4. What did the cannibal snails cause in Hawaii?
(a) Mudslides.
(b) A tropical avalanche.
(c) An extinction spree.
(d) An extinction avalanche.

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

6. According to Kolbert, why are mice perfect lab animals?
(a) They are small and gentle.
(b) Their genetics are well known and studied.
(c) They are clean and obedient.
(d) They are cheap and easy to care for.

7. How many of Lackner’s trailer-sized carbon scrubbing units would be needed to significantly reduce the carbon footprint?
(a) 100 million.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 1 billion.
(d) 100,000.

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

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

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

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

12. 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 scrubbing.
(b) Chemical weathering.
(c) Chemical scrubbing.
(d) Enhanced weathering.

13. 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) Positive emissions.
(c) Negative emissions.
(d) Solar geoengineering.

14. What was Klaus Lackner hired to study in the 1970s, which was supposed to be the answer to the emissions problem?
(a) Fossil fuels.
(b) Fusion.
(c) Negative emissions.
(d) Hydrogen.

15. How far underground would carbon dioxide be injected?
(a) 1 mile.
(b) 1/2 mile.
(c) A few inches.
(d) 10 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mark Tizard want the general population to know about genetic modification?

2. Who does Tizard bring on to help with the details of toad experiments?

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

4. How long would it take to turn carbon dioxide to stone?

5. What did Lin Schwarzkopf help to invent?

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