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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 small town in Maryland was drowned by a "thousand-year flood" in 2016 (22)?
(a) Ellicott City.
(b) Warren.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Montague.

2. If we follow the path we are on today, the U.N. estimates that we are due for how many degrees of warming by 2100?
(a) 2.3
(b) 4.5.
(c) 4.8.
(d) 5.2.

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

4. When did the United Nations establish its Framework on Climate Change?
(a) 1992.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1999.

5. How many mass extinctions has the earth experienced prior to the one we are living through now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was David Wallace-Wells's mother born?

2. Who funded Wallace Smith Broecker's research in the 1970s?

3. How many people were evacuated from mainland China due to the Typhoon Mangkhut?

4. What percent of all human experience throughout history is estimated to belong to people right now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

5. What small Northern California town was largely wiped out by the Camp Fire?

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