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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much gasoline could the deuterium yield that is found in each gallon of seawater?
(a) 75 gallons.
(b) 50 gallons.
(c) 125 gallons.
(d) 200 gallons.

2. When was there a medieval warm period?
(a) AD 1100 to the 1300s.
(b) AD 1000 to the 1300s.
(c) AD 1200 to the 1400s.
(d) AD 1300 to 1400.

3. When was Iraq attempting to develop nuclear weapons?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1999.

4. In Part IV, how long did it take to go between Moscow and New York City by satellite?
(a) 21 minutes.
(b) 13 minutes.
(c) 17 minutes.
(d) 34 minutes.

5. In Section V, how many degrees Fahrenheit does the author say that the Earth's temperature has increased in the last century?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

6. According to the IPCC, how much of a chance is there that humans are not responsible for global warming?
(a) 5%.
(b) 12%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 8%.

7. If a fusion reactor could be built, how much deuterium and tritium would be needed yearly for a gigawatt power plant?
(a) 350 pounds.
(b) 500 pounds.
(c) 200 pounds.
(d) 150 pounds.

8. In Chapter 17, how many shuttles had been lost in more than 100 missions?
(a) 9.
(b) 16.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

9. When did the author spend a night with the U.S. Border Patrol?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1989.

10. When did Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann mistakenly believe they had achieved cold fusion?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1991.

11. When did Luis Alvarez and his colleagues discover a way to eliminate the need for high termperature in fusion?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1963.

12. When did the space shuttle Columbia explode?
(a) January 9, 2003.
(b) March 11, 2003.
(c) February 1, 2003.
(d) April 23, 2003.

13. When did the U.S. and Russia sign a treaty where they promised to reduce their stockpile of nuclear weapons to less than 6,000 each?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1998.

14. If the energy of a space shuttle is turned into heat and the heat transferred to the shuttle, to what temperature will the shuttle's temperature rise to?
(a) About 200,000 degrees F.
(b) Over 140,000 degrees F.
(c) 170,000 degrees F.
(d) 128,000 degrees F.

15. How much of the atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide?
(a) 0.579%.
(b) 0.038%.
(c) 2%.
(d) 1%.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 19, for what time period have written records of temperatures been analyzed?

2. In Chapter 13, where was there a prototype nuclear waste facility?

3. During what period of time was the temperature about 2 degrees F than at the time the book was written?

4. How high in altitude must a person travel to be awarded astronaut wings by the United States?

5. How much did it cost to launch a pound of anything into orbit in 2008?

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