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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many gallons of gasoline were released into Galveston Bay as a result of Hurricane Harvey?
(a) 320,000.
(b) 460,000.
(c) 253,000.
(d) 640,000.

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) 2011.
(b) 2013.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2000.

3. How long can a person with kidney failure expect to live with dialysis?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 5 years.

4. The United Nations estimates that how much of the global population will live in cities by 2050?
(a) 1/3.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 2/3.

5. How much carbon is there currently in the air, according to the author in "Heat Death"?
(a) 410 parts per million.
(b) 232 parts per million.
(c) 745 parts per million.
(d) 153 parts per million.

6. When was David Wallace-Wells's mother born?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1945.

7. The author asserts in Part I: Cascades that the majority of carbon burning produced by humans has occurred since the premiere of what television show?
(a) I Love Lucy.
(b) All in the Family.
(c) Seinfeld.
(d) The Honeymooners.

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

9. How many pounds of grain does it take to produce a single pound of hamburger meat?
(a) 3 pounds.
(b) 8 pounds.
(c) 5 pounds.
(d) 1 pound.

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

11. The rate at which humankind is adding carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is how many times faster than any point in human history before the beginning of industrialization?
(a) 7 times faster.
(b) 10 times faster.
(c) 4 times faster.
(d) 20 times faster.

12. According to the author in "Heat Death," the hottest temperature likely ever recorded in April was registered where in 2018?
(a) Afghanistan.
(b) Pakistan.
(c) Iraq.
(d) Iran.

13. How much money in damages did Typhoon Mangkhut wreak on the Philippines and Hong Kong in 2018?
(a) $50 million.
(b) $500,000.
(c) $5 million.
(d) $1 billion.

14. What was the population of New Orleans in 1960?
(a) 600,000.
(b) 400,000.
(c) 700,000.
(d) 2 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Approximately how many acres did the Mendocino Complex burn in 2018?

3. When was the country of Pakistan formed?

4. Approximately how many separate wildfires broke out in California in 2017?

5. What term did Wallace Smith Broecker help to popularize, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

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