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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lackner also believes that dealing with emissions should be similar to dealing with what?

2. What does Mark Tizard want the general population to know about genetic modification?

3. When do some people believe that humans began altering the atmosphere, called the early Anthropocene hypothesis?

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

5. What invention launched the Industrial Revolution?

Short Essay Questions

1. What must happen to keep temperature rise to less than two degrees?

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

3. What is the early Anthropocene hypothesis?

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

5. What does Kolbert think about the genetic engineering home kit that she purchases?

6. Who are the Odins that Colbert describes?

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

8. How are geothermal plants clean?

9. What is a suppression drive?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Kolbert say about man and his relationship with the natural world? Do you agree with her? Why or why not? Has reading Under a White Sky altered your perspective of the environment and what is being done to remedy problems? If so, how? If not, why not?

Essay Topic 2

Kolbert mentions that there are two different main beliefs for how long mankind has influenced the earth's climate. What are these two beliefs? With which hypothesis do you agree? Why? What details from the book can you use to support your position? In the end, does it matter which hypothesis you agree with? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Kolbert writes and Afterword but does so not to put the reader's mind at ease. What is the purpose of her Afterword? How does it leave the reader? Why might Kolbert want to leave the reader this way? What does she hope this might accomplish? In your own case, is she successful? Why or why not?

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