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

2. What is the term for when water bursts through a levee, whether man-made or natural?
(a) A water spout.
(b) A creole.
(c) A crevasse.
(d) A geyser.

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

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

5. What act led to the introduction of Asian carp?
(a) Save the Fish Act.
(b) Return to Nature Act.
(c) Clean Water Act.
(d) Nature Preservation Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 2, why does Kolbert fly in a small airplane?

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

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

4. What two events sped up the drop in pupfish numbers?

5. What is Kolker’s prediction for New Orleans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What has happened to Isle de Jean Charles?

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