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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Tizard and his partner hope to accomplish regarding cane toad eggs?
(a) Make them less abundant.
(b) Make them hard to swallow.
(c) Make the eggs impossible to fertilize.
(d) Make them edible.

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

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

4. Fifteen million tons of carbon dioxide were released by humans in 1776, while today that number is closer to what?
(a) 40,000 tons yearly.
(b) 40 trillion tons yearly.
(c) 40 million tons yearly.
(d) 40 billion tons yearly.

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

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

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

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

9. What invention launched the Industrial Revolution?
(a) Eli Whitney’s cotton gin.
(b) James Watt’s new steam engine.
(c) Karl Benz’s automobile.
(d) Da Vinci’s flying machine.

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

11. 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) Was it all totally cool or totally crazy?
(c) How fast can this become reality everywhere?
(d) How can she get involved?

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

13. Which country produces the most emissions?
(a) All African nations combined.
(b) Russia.
(c) China.
(d) The U.S.

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

15. What is it called to bring a species back from extinction?
(a) Genetic rescue.
(b) Genetic rebirth.
(c) Frankenstein genetics.
(d) Genetic resurrection.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Paul Thomas?

2. What is NOT one of the problems mentioned regarding cane toads?

3. Who is Edda Aradóttir?

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

5. How did the co-founders of Climeworks meet?

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