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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. How long would it take to turn carbon dioxide to stone?
(a) Several years.
(b) Hundreds of years.
(c) Hundreds of thousands of years.
(d) Several months.

2. What two drainage basins were linked with the reversal of the Chicago River and the creation of the Sanitary and Ship Canal?
(a) The Mississippi River and Chicago River.
(b) The Chicago River and Great Lakes.
(c) The Great Plains and the Great Lakes.
(d) The Mississippi River and Great Lakes.

3. How did the co-founders of Climeworks meet?
(a) In a Starbucks.
(b) In a conference.
(c) At the Paris accord.
(d) In college.

4. What is a suppression drive?
(a) A gene drive that would overpower natural selection.
(b) A gene drive that kills off a species.
(c) A gene drive that suppresses one’s immune system.
(d) A gene drive that makes all recessive genes dominant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is one of the locals at the town hall meeting against the creation of holes in the levees?

2. What is the mouse called that would make it so only male mice survived?

3. What does bleaching do to coral?

4. To what does Kolbert compare being hit by a jumping carp?

5. What act led to the introduction of Asian carp?

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