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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Tizard hope to teach other animals to avoid the cane toads?
(a) Use the non-lethal toads to teach other animals that cane toads make you sick, so you should not eat them.
(b) Use small, foul-tasting toads to teach other species that these toads do not taste good.
(c) To show other species how scared and hard to find these toads are.
(d) Use glowing toads to scare away other species.

3. How are rodents often currently killed?
(a) Through hunting.
(b) Poison.
(c) Euthanasia.
(d) Traps.

4. What happened to an engineer in China who used CRISPR on a set of twins?
(a) He was given funding for more studies.
(b) He was exiled.
(c) He received the Nobel Peace prize.
(d) He was put under house arrest.

5. 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.

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

7. Where is the geothermal plant located that Kolbert visits in Up in the Air: Chapter 1?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) China.
(c) Poland.
(d) Iceland.

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

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

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

11. In Into the Wild: Chapter 3, why does Kolbert begin with an explanation of the Norse god, Odin?
(a) To show the similarities between gods and humans.
(b) To compare him to the genetic-engineering company, Odin.
(c) To show how dangerous it is to play God.
(d) To compare him to the powers of nature.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were cane toads first introduced outside of their natural environments?

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

3. What combination does Kolbert mention that could make cane toads non-lethal and coral heat-resistant?

4. Which country produces the most emissions?

5. What problem is the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Australia trying to correct?

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