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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Gates’ institution located?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Off the coast of Sydney, Australia.
(c) In the Mohave.
(d) Off the coast of Oahu, HI.

2. Why was Manly’s trip west end up so arduous?
(a) Manly and the argonauts refused to use maps and ended up taking a more difficult path.
(b) Manly and the argonauts arrived too early in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.
(c) Manly and the argonauts arrived too late in the season to take the simplest and most direct route.
(d) Manly and the argonauts got lost during a sand storm.

3. How does Kolbert feel about the community of Isle de Jean Charles?
(a) She feels outrage for how they have been mistreated.
(b) She feels that they should have left years ago.
(c) She believes the community should move on and forget the island.
(d) She understands why no measures are being taken to save it, but she feels terrible for the residents.

4. What event does Kolbert attend that is to bring awareness and interest in eating carp?
(a) Carp - All You Can Eat!
(b) CarpFest.
(c) Carpapaloosa.
(d) ChefCarp.

5. To what does Kolbert compare the bringing back of a species from the brink of extinction?
(a) Stockholm Syndrome.
(b) A heavenly miracle.
(c) God Syndrome.
(d) Reincarnation.

6. When did William Lewis Manly take a difficult journey west?
(a) 1749.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1819.
(d) 1889.

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

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

9. With whom does Kolbert ride in a boat far down along the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal?
(a) Rachel Carson.
(b) The United States Army Corps of Engineers.
(c) The Friends of the Chicago River.
(d) The Clean Water Act Organization.

10. What is the term for when water bursts through a levee, whether man-made or natural?
(a) A geyser.
(b) A water spout.
(c) A creole.
(d) A crevasse.

11. When was it determined that the Anthropocene Age began?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1930s.
(d) The 1880s.

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

13. 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) Poison.
(b) Overfishing.
(c) Bubbles and loud noises.
(d) Electrocution.

14. Darwin’s ideas regarding evolution were first known as what?
(a) Transmutation.
(b) Transliteration.
(c) Transgender.
(d) Transfiguration.

15. In Kolbert’s observations in and near Chicago, Asian carp, when caught, are then processed into what?
(a) Gefilte fish.
(b) Pet food.
(c) Fish patties.
(d) Fertilizer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do Kolbert and Van Oppen meet?

2. What happens if coral is unable to acquire new symbionts after a heatwave?

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

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

5. What is Kolbert expecting to see in the SeaSim in Townsville, Australia?

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