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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. How are rodents often currently killed?
(a) Traps.
(b) Through hunting.
(c) Euthanasia.
(d) Poison.

2. Which Dr. Suess book does Kolbert compare biological interventions?
(a) The Cat in the Hat.
(b) Fox in Sox.
(c) The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
(d) Horton Hears a Who.

3. 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) Positive emissions.
(b) Solar geoengineering.
(c) Negative emissions.
(d) Solar scrubbing.

4. What did Lin Schwarzkopf help to invent?
(a) CRISPR.
(b) CATCHA.
(c) Brodifacoum.
(d) The Toadinator trap.

5. What could be used if a gene drive goes rogue?
(a) A ROGUE sequence.
(b) A GOTCHA sequence.
(c) A CRISPR sequence.
(d) A CATCHA sequence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem is the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Australia trying to correct?

2. Lackner realized back in the 1970s what is now well-known that the world is decades away from having what kind of working reactor?

3. What are two species that Revive & Restore hope to resurrect?

4. One activist that Kolbert mentions says that sometimes doing nothing is better than what?

5. According to Kolbert, why are mice perfect lab animals?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are rodents a biological marker of the Anthropocene age?

2. What are the pros and cons of a powerful gene drive?

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

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 is the widely held view regarding man’s influence on the atmosphere?

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

7. What are some of the ways that Kolbert mentions Australians deal with cane toads? What might be the pros and cons?

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

9. What is the problem with fusion?

10. What are negative emissions? Why might they be important?

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