English SM2 4.1

In the Chapter The City Without us:

If all the people in New York City were to disappear, what force of nature would be most responsible for causing the buildings to collapse?

• Fungi

• Wind

• Water

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What example does Alan Weisman give at the beginning of the Chapter to contrast the Power of humans with the power of Nature?

• Construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza

• the depletion of the ocean's fish

• The events of September 11, 2001

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Who is Dr. Eric Sanderson as mentioned in the chapter, A City Without Us?

• A landscape ecologist who studies Manhattan Island as it existed in the 17th century

• =A zoologist whose goal is to introduce foreign species to Manhattan

• One of the original settlers of what became New York

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Which man-made object is likely to last long after humans have disappeared from New York City?

• Bronze sculptures

• sewer systems

• ceilings

• paper money

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Which species would thrive if New York City were to be abandoned, according to Alan Wiseman?

• The American Chestnut tree

• The domestic dog

• The Chinese ailanthus tree

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What example does Alan Weisman give to show that nature has little concern for things that humans find important?

• Mail in post offices

• Squirrels in the Bronx

• paintings in museums

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Which sentence is an example of chronological structure in "The City Without Us"?

• While suspension bridges will last a few centuries, truss bridges may last 1,000 years

• Unheated buildings would result in a destructive freeze-thaw cycle

• Water in Manhattan's underground spaces has to be pumped out daily

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Read this passage from "The City Without us"

The notion that someday nature could swallow whole

something so colossal and concrete as a modern city

doesn't slide easily into our imaginations. The sheer titanic

presence of a New York City resists efforts to picture it

wasting away. The events of September 2001 showed only

what human beings with explosive hardware can do, not

crude processes like erosion or rot.... Nevertheless, the

time it would take nature to rid itself of what urbanity has

wrought may be less than we might suspect.

Why does the author most likely emphasize the size of New York City?

• To show that it is actually quite small compared to nature and the ecosystem

• To contrast the city with the much smaller ecosystems that existed before it

• To imply that New York City comprises its own self-contained ecosystem

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What is one question that Chapter 3 of Alan Weisman's "The World Without Us" tries to answer?

• What is most responsible for the destruction of the environment

• What environmental assets do humans find most valuable

• How much does our presence on Earth matter?

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Which detail from "The City Without Us" most clearly shows that nature is more powerful that it appears

• The diseases and fungi that infect the trees in the New York Botanical Garden

• The great size of the trees that grow in the New York Botanical Garden

• The ocean waves that threaten to break the levees around New York City

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