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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. 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?
(a) How can she get involved?
(b) Was it all totally cool or totally crazy?
(c) Are there other plants like this one?
(d) How fast can this become reality everywhere?

2. Kolbert tells the reader that the first report on global warming took place in when?
(a) In 1975.
(b) In 1969.
(c) In 1979.
(d) In 1965.

3. To what does Kolbert compare being hit by a jumping carp?
(a) Being struck by a truck.
(b) Being hit by a wiffle-ball bat.
(c) Being smacked in the face.
(d) Being knocked out in a boxing ring.

4. How far do coral reefs stretch north and south of the equator?
(a) 20 degrees.
(b) 50 miles.
(c) 30 miles.
(d) 30 degrees.

5. Why are Kolbert and Gates’ plans to meet cancelled?
(a) Gates has lesions on her brain she hoped to have treated in Mexico.
(b) Both women were too busy.
(c) The institute was under construction.
(d) A huge storm cancelled their plans.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first person to realize the importance of ice cores was who?

2. What mammals were first experimented on with CRISPR and the gene drive?

3. What event does Kolbert attend that is to bring awareness and interest in eating carp?

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?

5. What animal does Darwin use to support his beliefs about evolution?

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