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Down the River

1. In Down the River Chapter 1, what examples of metaphors does Elizabeth Kolbert give involving rivers?
(a) Rivers are metaphors for depth, reflection, and life.
(b) Rivers are metaphors for pollution, destruction, and decay.
(c) Rivers are metaphors for loneliness.
(d) Rivers are metaphors for all the problems that humans have caused.

2. With whom does Kolbert ride in a boat far down along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal?
(a) The Friends of the Chicago River.
(b) The United States Army Corps of Engineers.
(c) The Clean Water Act Organization.
(d) Rachel Carson.

3. What are CSOs?
(a) Centers for Sewage Output.
(b) Collection Systems Overflows.
(c) Combined Sewer Overflows.
(d) College of South Orleans.

4. Prior to the digging of the canal, Chicago’s waste ran into the Chicago River and into Lake Michigan, which led to what regular outbreaks?
(a) Typhoid and Cholera.
(b) Bird Flu and Swine Flu.
(c) Consumption and West Nile Virus.
(d) Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever.

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