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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Are there other plants like this one?
(b) How can she get involved?
(c) Was it all totally cool or totally crazy?
(d) How fast can this become reality everywhere?

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

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

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

5. 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 dominant genes.
(b) CRISPR used in conjunction with the power of outliar genes.
(c) CRISPR used in conjunction with the power of rogue genes.
(d) CRISPR used in conjunction with the power of outlaw genes.

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

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

8. What bacteria is included in Kolbert’s genetic modification kit?
(a) E-coli.
(b) Coccus.
(c) Vibrio.
(d) Bacillus.

9. Kolbert says that, without help, most of the carbon dioxide humans emit would turn to stone eventually, called what?
(a) Chemical solidification.
(b) Chemical weathering.
(c) Chemical aging.
(d) Natural stoning.

10. Where do biologists like Tizard hope to get the power to spread genetic modifications throughout a species?
(a) Outliar genes.
(b) Rogue genes.
(c) Outlaw genes.
(d) Dominant genes.

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

12. 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) Disposal of large amounts of carbon dioxide underground would be tricky.
(c) It is a challenging and dangerous technique.
(d) It is expensive.

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

14. Global temperatures have increased how many degrees Fahrenheit since Watt’s day?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 1.5.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kolbert, if the Anthropocene’s clearest geological marker is a spike in radioactive particles, what is its clearest biological marker?

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

3. A widely supported view regarding years the effect of human behavior on the environment is that it did not really become significant until when?

4. One activist that Kolbert mentions says that sometimes doing nothing is better than what?

5. How are rodents often currently killed?

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