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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Paul Thomas?
(a) An employee at Odin.
(b) A mouse research expert.
(c) A CRISPR expert.
(d) A toad research expert.

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?
(a) The early-nineteenth century.
(b) The late-eighteenth century.
(c) The early-twentieth century.
(d) The late-seventeenth century.

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

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

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

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

8. How many trees would have to be planted to remove a significant amount of carbon dioxide?
(a) A million.
(b) A billion.
(c) 900,000 thousand.
(d) A trillion.

9. What is Brodifacoum?
(a) A trap used to catch cane toads.
(b) A powerful cleaning and disinfecting product.
(c) An antibiotic used to heal sick animals.
(d) An anticoagulant used to kill mice.

10. Who does Tizard bring on to help with the details of toad experiments?
(a) Ruth Gates.
(b) Caitlin Cooper.
(c) Elizabeth Kolbert.
(d) Carey McCamey.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do biologists like Tizard hope to get the power to spread genetic modifications throughout a species?

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

3. Which Dr. Suess book does Kolbert compare biological interventions?

4. Global temperatures have increased how many degrees Fahrenheit since Watt’s day?

5. What is the strongest argument for gene editing cane toads, house mice, and ship rats?

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