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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. Where does it make sense to have a geothermal plant?
(a) Along a seam of active volcanoes.
(b) In the jungle.
(c) In high altitude.
(d) Along a seashore.

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

3. Kolbert mentions that effects of the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic and how emissions dropped how much?
(a) 97%.
(b) 17%.
(c) 7%.
(d) 70%.

4. What do Tizard and his partner hope to accomplish regarding cane toad eggs?
(a) Make them less abundant.
(b) Make them hard to swallow.
(c) Make them edible.
(d) Make the eggs impossible to fertilize.

5. How far underground would carbon dioxide be injected?
(a) 10 miles.
(b) A few inches.
(c) 1 mile.
(d) 1/2 mile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it called to bring a species back from extinction?

2. What is the main genetic modification plan for the cane toads in the lab?

3. In Into the Wild: Chapter 3, why does Kolbert begin with an explanation of the Norse god, Odin?

4. For how long might you be blind if cane toad poison gets in your eyes?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the issue with chemical weathering regarding carbon dioxide?

4. What is a suppression drive?

5. What is the early Anthropocene hypothesis?

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

7. How are geothermal plants clean?

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

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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