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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. Manly and nearly how many argonauts gathered in Salt Lake City to travel together to gold country in northern California?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 4,000.
(d) 50.

2. What is Kolker’s prediction for New Orleans?
(a) It will no longer look like a boot.
(b) It will eventually detach and float away.
(c) It will eventually sink and disappear.
(d) It will eventually look more like an island.

3. What is a NOT a technique listed by Kolbert to support species that were brought back from the brink of extinction?
(a) Managed burns.
(b) Supplemental feeding.
(c) Catch and release.
(d) Captive breeding.

4. What book does Kolbert say led to the introduction of Asian carp in U.S. rivers?
(a) Fish Are Our Friends.
(b) The evils of Pesticides.
(c) Rachel The Control of Nature.
(d) How to Control Non-Native Species.

5. By the time 2016’s global bleaching event ended in 2017, what percentage of the Great Barrier Reef was affected?
(a) Just under 90%.
(b) Over 75%.
(c) Over 50%.
(d) Over 90%.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Down the River Chapter 1, what examples of metaphors does Elizabeth Kolbert give involving rivers?

2. In Kolbert’s observations in and near Chicago, Asian carp, when caught, are then processed into what?

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

4. What does bleaching do to coral?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is an atoll formed?

3. How does Ruth Gates hope to aid the world's coral reefs?

4. How is extinction now an observable phenomenon?

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

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

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

8. How is Kolbert inspired by Gates?

9. Why was the Old River Control Auxiliary Structure created?

10. What is the reason for why the Chicago River was reversed?

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