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

2. When do Kolbert and Van Oppen meet?
(a) Almost a year after Gates’ death.
(b) At a conference for marine biologists.
(c) When Kolbert first met Gates.
(d) After a year of bleached coral.

3. When was it determined that the Anthropocene Age began?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1880s.
(d) The 1930s.

4. Why are Kolbert and Gates’ plans to meet cancelled?
(a) A huge storm cancelled their plans.
(b) Both women were too busy.
(c) The institute was under construction.
(d) Gates has lesions on her brain she hoped to have treated in Mexico.

5. In Down the River Chapter 1, what examples of metaphors does Elizabeth Kolbert give involving rivers?
(a) Rivers are metaphors for all the problems that humans have caused.
(b) Rivers are metaphors for pollution, destruction, and decay.
(c) Rivers are metaphors for depth, reflection, and life.
(d) Rivers are metaphors for loneliness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Darwin use to support his beliefs about evolution?

2. Why is one of the locals at the town hall meeting against the creation of holes in the levees?

3. What event does Kolbert attend that is to bring awareness and interest in eating carp?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is extinction now an observable phenomenon?

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

3. What is the problem with Wood Screw Pumps?

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

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

6. What problems has human domination over nature caused, according to Kolbert?

7. How does Kolbert compare her stay at the Paris in Las Vegas to life for the pupfish in Devils Hole Jr.?

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

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

10. How is an atoll formed?

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