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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Up in the Air: Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 2, why does Kolbert fly in a small airplane?
(a) To get from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
(b) To fly from Chicago to New Orleans.
(c) To see the Chicago River from the sky.
(d) To get a bird’s eye view of the Plaquemines.

2. How much land mass has the Isle de Jean Charles lost since the 1950s?
(a) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to five square miles.
(b) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to twenty-five square miles.
(c) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to fifteen square miles.
(d) It has shrunk from thirty-five square miles to half a square mile.

3. To what has gene-drive technology been compared?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut’s ice-nine.
(b) Steven King’s It.
(c) Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice.
(d) Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.

4. Where does Kolbert stay for her last night in Nevada?
(a) The Venetian.
(b) A Native American reservation.
(c) The Paris.
(d) The Bellagio.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two species that Revive & Restore hope to resurrect?

2. The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, showed that the majority of possibilities for keeping climate temperatures down require what?

3. What is NOT an example given for combatting sea level rise and deadly storm surges?

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

5. Lackner and a friend, Christopher Wendt, met over beers and starting wondering what?

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