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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 are CSOs?
(a) Combined Sewer Overflows.
(b) Centers for Sewage Output.
(c) College of South Orleans.
(d) Collection Systems Overflows.

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

3. To what does Kolbert compare being hit by a jumping carp?
(a) Being smacked in the face.
(b) Being struck by a truck.
(c) Being knocked out in a boxing ring.
(d) Being hit by a wiffle-ball bat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is the land in the southern region of Louisiana compared?

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

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

4. How far do coral reefs stretch north and south of the equator?

5. What was the original name of New Orleans, as given by Kolbert in this book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is amazing about coral reefs?

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

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

4. What has happened to Isle de Jean Charles?

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

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

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

8. What is William Lewis Manly's role in the discovery of Devils Hole?

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

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

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