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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: "Politics of Consumption" - Part IV: The Anthropic Principle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Roger Revelle die?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2001.

2. What does the IPCC refer to?
(a) Imperial Protocol of Climate Change.
(b) International Protocol for Climate Change.
(c) International Participation in Climate Correction.
(d) International Panel on Climate Change.

3. Yellow fever is estimated to kill approximately what percentage of those infected?
(a) 10-12%.
(b) 3-8%.
(c) 2-4%.
(d) 8-10%.

4. 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) 4.8.
(b) 5.2.
(c) 2.3
(d) 4.5.

5. How many signatories are there on the Paris climate accords (as of the time of the book's publication)?
(a) 103.
(b) 254.
(c) 232.
(d) 195.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many people fell ill from cryptosporidium due to an outbreak following a storm in 1993?

2. Who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore?

3. According to a 2018 government report, how many people in India face "high to extreme water stress" (107)?

4. What is the approximate temperture of the greater San Francisco Bay Area currently (as of 2018)?

5. The Black Death killed as much as what percent of the population of Europe, according to the author?

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