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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Into the Wild: Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the main causes of the shrinkage of Isle de Jean Charles?
(a) It is slowly sinking due to rising sea levels.
(b) Multiple hurricanes.
(c) The shore is lacking natural vegetation to keep soil in place.
(d) Flood control measures and oil industry digging.

2. When the United States won a case against the developer, Cappaert Enterprises, who took over the land?
(a) The Sierra Club.
(b) The Fish and Game Service.
(c) The National Parks Department.
(d) The Fish and Wildlife Service.

3. What does Kevin Irons, the assistant chief of fisheries at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, feel is the best way to control the carp population?
(a) Electrocution.
(b) Overfishing.
(c) Bubbles and loud noises.
(d) Poison.

4. Why was the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure created?
(a) To redirect the flow of the Atchafalaya.
(b) To attempt to control a tributary of the Mississippi River called the Atchafalaya.
(c) To dam up the water coming from the Mississippi River.
(d) To attempt to control the Old River.

5. When Kolbert visits the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ location in Chicago soon after her cruise down the sewage canal, she meets with whom?
(a) The engineer in charge of the levees.
(b) The engineer in charge of cleaning the sewage canal.
(c) The engineer in charge or rerouting the river.
(d) The engineer in charge of the electric fish barriers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the original name of New Orleans, as given by Kolbert in this book?

2. Kolbert jumps to a day when she meets Alex Kolker, a professor at LSU, who has what as a side gig?

3. What two events sped up the drop in pupfish numbers?

4. What is the scientific name for the Devil’s Hole pupfish?

5. Kolbert moves onto a visit to the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure located how many miles upriver of Baton Rouge?

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