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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. What happened to an engineer in China who used CRISPR on a set of twins?
(a) He was put under house arrest.
(b) He was exiled.
(c) He was given funding for more studies.
(d) He received the Nobel Peace prize.

2. Lackner also believes that dealing with emissions should be similar to dealing with what?
(a) Natural disasters.
(b) Sewage.
(c) Criminals.
(d) Domesticated animals.

3. Where do biologists like Tizard hope to get the power to spread genetic modifications throughout a species?
(a) Outlaw genes.
(b) Outliar genes.
(c) Dominant genes.
(d) Rogue genes.

4. What do Tizard and his partner hope to accomplish regarding cane toad eggs?
(a) Make the eggs impossible to fertilize.
(b) Make them edible.
(c) Make them hard to swallow.
(d) Make them less abundant.

5. Lackner realized back in the 1970s what is now well-known that the world is decades away from having what kind of working reactor?
(a) Carbon.
(b) Hydrogen.
(c) Emissions.
(d) Fusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the strongest argument for gene editing cane toads, house mice, and ship rats?

2. What did the cannibal snails cause in Hawaii?

3. One activist that Kolbert mentions says that sometimes doing nothing is better than what?

4. Kolbert says that, without help, most of the carbon dioxide humans emit would turn to stone eventually, called what?

5. What is the main genetic modification plan for the cane toads in the lab?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the widely held view regarding man’s influence on the atmosphere?

2. What are three major issues with the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

3. What are some of the ways that Kolbert mentions Australians deal with cane toads? What might be the pros and cons?

4. What are the pros and cons of a powerful gene drive?

5. What does Kolbert think about the genetic engineering home kit that she purchases?

6. What is an outlaw gene? Why is it important to this book?

7. What is Climeworks?

8. What is the explanation that Tizzard gives for why genetic modifications are a good option for dealing with imbalances in nature?

9. How is cutting emissions at once absolutely essential and insufficient?

10. What are a couple of the responses when asked about man’s roll and fixing or protecting the environment in into the wild Chapter 3?

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