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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name Kolbert gives for the ability for humans to now watch other species go extinct?
(a) An observable phenomena.
(b) A timeline to doomsday.
(c) A ticking time bomb to the world's end.
(d) A species travesty.

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

4. 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 cleaning the sewage canal.
(b) The engineer in charge of the electric fish barriers.
(c) The engineer in charge or rerouting the river.
(d) The engineer in charge of the levees.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Kolbert first learn of Devil’s Hole?

2. Where does Kolbert stay for her last night in Nevada?

3. How far away is a fake Devil’s Hole from the real one?

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. Why were low-lying parts of New Orleans not abandoned to the water?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Kolbert inspired by Gates?

2. What is Van Oppen's relationship with her students?

3. What do most of the Australians Kolbert spoke to think about the future of the Great Barrier Reef?

4. How does Kolbert compare her stay at the Paris in Las Vegas to life for the pupfish in Devils Hole Jr.?

5. What is the crime that was committed at Devils Hole?

6. What problems has human domination over nature caused, according to Kolbert?

7. When do the majority of scientists believe the Anthropocene Age began?

8. Why were Asian carp brought over to the U.S.?

9. How did the indigenous people of the New Orleans area deal with flooding versus the first European settlers?

10. How is an atoll formed?

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