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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. Are gene drives always beneficial for the species?
(a) No, not necessarily.
(b) Half and half.
(c) No, never.
(d) Yes, always.
2. What is a suppression drive?
(a) A gene drive that makes all recessive genes dominant.
(b) A gene drive that would overpower natural selection.
(c) A gene drive that kills off a species.
(d) A gene drive that suppresses one’s immune system.
3. What are two species that Revive & Restore hope to resurrect?
(a) The dinosaur and the Woolley mammoth.
(b) The passenger pigeon and the American chestnut tree.
(c) The dodo bird and the American chestnut tree.
(d) The passenger pigeon and the dodo bird.
4. 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) Fusion.
(b) Hydrogen.
(c) Carbon.
(d) Emissions.
5. Kolbert tells the reader that geothermal plants are relatively clean but do produce what gases?
(a) Hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide.
(b) Hydrogen monoxide and carbon monoxide.
(c) Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.
(d) Hydrogen dioxide and carbon dioxide.
Short Answer Questions
1. What invention launched the Industrial Revolution?
2. How does Tizard hope to teach other animals to avoid the cane toads?
3. Lackner also believes that dealing with emissions should be similar to dealing with what?
4. Kolbert talks about a trip she took to Zurich, Switzerland, where she visited a Climeworks facility; what was done with the carbon dioxide?
5. One activist that Kolbert mentions says that sometimes doing nothing is better than what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is an outlaw gene? Why is it important to this book?
2. What is Climeworks?
3. What is the issue with chemical weathering regarding carbon dioxide?
4. How do cane toads become a problem in Australia?
5. How is cutting emissions at once absolutely essential and insufficient?
6. According to Climeworks, why does it make sense to turn carbon dioxide to stone?
7. What must happen to keep temperature rise to less than two degrees?
8. What is the early Anthropocene hypothesis?
9. What are three major issues with the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
10. What is the problem with fusion?
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