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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 did Lackner found in 2014 at ASU?
(a) The Center for Disease Control.
(b) The Center for Global Cooling.
(c) The Center for Negative Carbon Emissions.
(d) The Center for Solar Geoengineering Studies.

2. Global temperatures have increased how many degrees Fahrenheit since Watt’s day?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.5.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

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

4. What happened to an engineer in China who used CRISPR on a set of twins?
(a) He was given funding for more studies.
(b) He received the Nobel Peace prize.
(c) He was put under house arrest.
(d) He was exiled.

5. What is done to make the geothermal plant cleaner that Kolbert visits?
(a) The hydrogen dioxide is dissolved in water and then injected it into the ground.
(b) The carbon monoxide is dissolved in water and then injected it into the ground.
(c) The hydrogen sulfide is dissolved in water and then injected it into the ground.
(d) The carbon dioxide is dissolved in water and then injected it into the ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far underground would carbon dioxide be injected?

2. What combination does Kolbert mention that could make cane toads non-lethal and coral heat-resistant?

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

4. Where is the geothermal plant located that Kolbert visits in Up in the Air: Chapter 1?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is usually use to kill rodents? What are the problems associated with this?

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

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

6. What is the early Anthropocene hypothesis?

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

8. What is a suppression drive?

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

10. What makes cane toads so destructive?

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