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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Into the Wild: Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are rodents often currently killed?
(a) Euthanasia.
(b) Poison.
(c) Traps.
(d) Through hunting.

2. What was the original name of New Orleans, as given by Kolbert in this book?
(a) NOLA.
(b) Bulbancha.
(c) L'isle de Duc de l'Orléans.
(d) L’Isle de la Nouvelle Orléans.

3. One activist that Kolbert mentions says that sometimes doing nothing is better than what?
(a) Saying nothing.
(b) Doing something.
(c) Making mistakes.
(d) Looking like a fool.

4. What does bleaching do to coral?
(a) It kills the coral.
(b) It causes it to become brittle.
(c) It detaches the symbionts from the coral.
(d) It breaks down the relationship between coral and their symbionts.

5. 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) Consumption and West Nile Virus.
(b) Scarlet Fever and Yellow Fever.
(c) Bird Flu and Swine Flu.
(d) Typhoid and Cholera.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the main causes of the shrinkage of Isle de Jean Charles?

2. Why was electric shock chosen to deter the fish?

3. To what is the land in the southern region of Louisiana compared?

4. When Manly and the others arrived at the edge of Death Valley, what did they think the fish were that they saw swimming in the cavern pool?

5. When the canal in Chicago reversed the flow of the river, into where did it eventually lead?

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