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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Manly and nearly how many argonauts gathered in Salt Lake City to travel together to gold country in northern California?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 50.
(d) 4,000.

2. Prior to the digging of the canal, Chicago’s waste ran into the Chicago River and into Lake Michigan, which led to what regular outbreaks?
(a) Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever.
(b) Typhoid and Cholera.
(c) Bird Flu and Swine Flu.
(d) Consumption and West Nile Virus.

3. Darwin’s ideas regarding evolution were first known as what?
(a) Transliteration.
(b) Transfiguration.
(c) Transmutation.
(d) Transgender.

4. What two drainage basins were linked with the reversal of the Chicago River and the creation of the Sanitary and Ship Canal?
(a) The Chicago River and Great Lakes.
(b) The Mississippi River and Great Lakes.
(c) The Mississippi River and Chicago River.
(d) The Great Plains and the Great Lakes.

5. What are Van Oppen and her students’ plans for coral?
(a) Buy time until the world takes climate change more seriously.
(b) Revitalize the reefs that have been lost.
(c) Keep the reefs from dying and shrinking any further.
(d) Create new reefs and ecosystems.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Kolbert ride in a boat far down along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal?

2. Why were low-lying parts of New Orleans not abandoned to the water?

3. What does bleaching do to coral?

4. When Manly and the others arrived at the edge of Death Valley, what did they think the fish were that they saw swimming in the cavern pool?

5. Darwin realized correctly that at the center of every atoll was what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What have humans done to save species on the brink of extinction?

2. What are crevasses, and why do a group of engineers want to create man-made ones?

3. What is Van Oppen's relationship with her students?

4. How does Ruth Gates hope to aid the world's coral reefs?

5. What is the purpose of the model delta at the Center for River Studies?

6. What do most of the Australians Kolbert spoke to think about the future of the Great Barrier Reef?

7. Why was the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure created?

8. What is the crime that was committed at Devils Hole?

9. How is extinction now an observable phenomenon?

10. How is Kolbert inspired by Gates?

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