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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Cascades.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the term "analogue" mean as used in Part I: Cascades?
(a) A thing that can be computed numerically.
(b) A think that is unlikely.
(c) A thing seen as comparable to another.
(d) A thing that is uncertain.

2. Beginning in what year were about a million Syrian refugees unleashed on Europe by a civil war inflamed by climate change, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 2013.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2000.

3. How many people were evacuated from mainland China due to the Typhoon Mangkhut?
(a) 400,000.
(b) 6.3 million.
(c) 2.45 million.
(d) 1.4 million.

4. When was David Wallace-Wells's father born?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1967.

5. Who is cited in Part I: Cascades as the theorist who called climate change a "hyperobject" (17)?
(a) Timothy Morton.
(b) Jair Bolsonaro.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) Irakli Loladze.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much carbon is said to be contained in the Arctic permafrost in Part I: Cascades?

2. When was the last time that the atmosphere contained 500 parts per million of carbon?

3. When was the Kyoto Protocol signed?

4. What small town in Maryland was drowned by a "thousand-year flood" in 2016 (22)?

5. What month has traditionally marked the beginning of the rainy season in California?

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