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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 Kolbert find at LSU’s Center for River Studies?
(a) A model of the delta.
(b) Photographs of the delta.
(c) A school of Asian carp.
(d) Plans for reducing flooding in the delta.

2. How much land mass has the Isle de Jean Charles lost since the 1950s?
(a) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to twenty-five square miles.
(b) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to half a square mile.
(c) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to five square miles.
(d) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to fifteen square miles.

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

4. After a week with Gates, how does Kolbert feel?
(a) Inspired.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Sad.
(d) Angry.

5. What problem does Joe Harvey mention to Kolbert?
(a) The sewage problem.
(b) The sinking problem.
(c) The flood problem.
(d) The carp problem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Gates’ institution located?

2. Darwin’s ideas regarding evolution were first known as what?

3. When the United States won a case against the developer, Cappaert Enterprises, who took over the land?

4. 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?

5. What is wrong with the Wood Screw Pumps in the twenty-four pumping stations that pump water out of the city?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Kolbert inspired by Gates?

2. What led to the introduction of non-native species to control pests?

3. In what ways are those in the Chicago area trying to manage the carp problem?

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

5. How is extinction now an observable phenomenon?

6. What is the problem with Wood Screw Pumps?

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

8. What is the solution chosen for dealing with the Asian carp problem in and around Chicago?

9. What is amazing about coral reefs?

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

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