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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 is NOT something that Kolbert says human domination over nature has caused?
(a) Dammed and diverted rivers.
(b) More species diversity and safer drinking water.
(c) Large amounts of nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
(d) Earthquakes.

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

3. How far do coral reefs stretch north and south of the equator?
(a) 30 miles.
(b) 30 degrees.
(c) 20 degrees.
(d) 50 miles.

4. When are the eggs harvested and brought back to Devils Hole Jr.?
(a) At the beginning of mating season.
(b) At the peak of season.
(c) At the end of mating season.
(d) In the off-season.

5. What is a NOT a technique listed by Kolbert to support species that were brought back from the brink of extinction?
(a) Captive breeding.
(b) Managed burns.
(c) Catch and release.
(d) Supplemental feeding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was electric shock chosen to deter the fish?

2. Each day at the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure, the gates are raised or lowered, depending on what?

3. To what island does Kolbert compare desert ecosystems?

4. By the time 2016’s global bleaching event ended in 2017, what percentage of the Great Barrier Reef was affected?

5. What is the term for when water bursts through a levee, whether man-made or natural?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has happened to Isle de Jean Charles?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. When do the majority of scientists believe the Anthropocene Age began?

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