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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. What does Kevin Irons, the assistant chief of fisheries at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, feel is the best way to control the carp population?
(a) Overfishing.
(b) Poison.
(c) Electrocution.
(d) Bubbles and loud noises.

2. Why is the Kaneohe Bay a prime location for studying and creating super coral?
(a) The coral has never suffered from bleaching.
(b) The coral population has only continued to grow.
(c) It is filled with coral reefs.
(d) It had been a sewage dumping ground but the reef started to revive on its own.

3. To what does Kolbert compare the bringing back of a species from the brink of extinction?
(a) God Syndrome.
(b) A heavenly miracle.
(c) Reincarnation.
(d) Stockholm Syndrome.

4. Why was Manly’s trip west end up so arduous?
(a) Manly and the argonauts refused to use maps and ended up taking a more difficult path.
(b) Manly and the argonauts arrived too early in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.
(c) Manly and the argonauts got lost during a sand storm.
(d) Manly and the argonauts arrived too late in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.

5. What is NOT a reason for why Devil’s Hole is a geological oddity?
(a) The fish were washed here when the whole area had more water and have never been able to leave.
(b) It holds water left over from the Pleistocene age.
(c) The cavern is narrow in some areas and very deep in others, much like a swimming pool.
(d) The pupfish have evolved to survive in the harsh conditions of Devils Hole.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kolbert feel about the community of Isle de Jean Charles?

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

3. What is the name Kolbert gives for the ability for humans to now watch other species go extinct?

4. What is NOT something that Kolbert says human domination over nature has caused?

5. How deep is Devil’s Hole at its deepest?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Kolbert inspired by Gates?

2. What is amazing about coral reefs?

3. How is an atoll formed?

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

5. How did the indigenous people of the New Orleans area deal with flooding versus the first European settlers?

6. What is the reason for why the Chicago River was reversed?

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

8. What is the problem with Wood Screw Pumps?

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

10. Why were Asian carp brought over to the U.S.?

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