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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Up in the Air: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem is the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Australia trying to correct?
(a) Severe drought and wildfires.
(b) The overpopulation of a non-native species of toad.
(c) Non-native and invasive species of coral.
(d) Deforestation.

2. Manly and nearly how many argonauts gathered in Salt Lake City to travel together to gold country in northern California?
(a) 50.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 4,000.

3. A widely supported view regarding years the effect of human behavior on the environment is that it did not really become significant until when?
(a) The late-eighteenth century.
(b) The late-seventeenth century.
(c) The early-twentieth century.
(d) The early-nineteenth century.

4. Who is Edda Aradóttir?
(a) The managing director of the geothermal plant.
(b) A friend of Kolbert’s.
(c) A solar geoengineer hired by Bill Gates.
(d) One of the thermal engineers in Poland.

5. What is the scientific name for the Devil’s Hole pupfish?
(a) Cyprinodon morte.
(b) Cyprinodon diavolo.
(c) Cyprinodon diabolo.
(d) Cyprinodon diabolis.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many species of birds has the Pacific rat killed off?

2. What is NOT one of the problems mentioned regarding cane toads?

3. Kolbert describes a carbon scrubbing machine invented by Lackner. To what does she compare it?

4. What is a NOT a technique listed by Kolbert to support species that were brought back from the brink of extinction?

5. What does Kolbert end the chapter wondering about all the burning trash, the acres of glass, the boxes of bumblebees, the vegetables raised on chemicals and captured carbon dioxide?

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