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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. Lackner realized back in the 1970s what is now well-known that the world is decades away from having what kind of working reactor?
(a) Hydrogen.
(b) Carbon.
(c) Emissions.
(d) Fusion.

2. What is it called when the rock from underground is brought up to meet the carbon dioxide, rather than the other way around?
(a) Chemical scrubbing.
(b) Chemical weathering.
(c) Enhanced weathering.
(d) Enhanced scrubbing.

3. What is NOT one of the problems mentioned regarding cane toads?
(a) They multiple very quickly.
(b) Their mating call is very annoying and loud.
(c) They eat almost anything.
(d) They are toxic.

4. Who is Edda Aradóttir?
(a) A friend of Kolbert’s.
(b) One of the thermal engineers in Poland.
(c) The managing director of the geothermal plant.
(d) A solar geoengineer hired by Bill Gates.

5. The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, showed that the majority of possibilities for keeping climate temperatures down require what?
(a) Solar geoengineering.
(b) Positive emissions.
(c) Solar scrubbing.
(d) Negative emissions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far underground would carbon dioxide be injected?

2. What was Klaus Lackner hired to study in the 1970s, which was supposed to be the answer to the emissions problem?

3. Where do biologists like Tizard hope to get the power to spread genetic modifications throughout a species?

4. Lackner and a friend, Christopher Wendt, met over beers and starting wondering what?

5. What would Lackner and Wendt’s invention do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Climeworks?

2. Who are the Odins that Colbert describes?

3. How is cutting emissions at once absolutely essential and insufficient?

4. What are a couple of the responses when asked about man’s roll and fixing or protecting the environment in into the wild Chapter 3?

5. What are the concerns surrounding rising temperatures?

6. According to Climeworks, why does it make sense to turn carbon dioxide to stone?

7. What are three major issues with the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

8. What is an outlaw gene? Why is it important to this book?

9. How are geothermal plants clean?

10. How do cane toads become a problem in Australia?

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