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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: The Climate Kaleidoscope, "Storytelling" - "The Church of Technology".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were killed around the world by inland flooding between 1995 and 2015?
(a) 142,000.
(b) 157,000.
(c) 633,000.
(d) 234,000.

2. How much of the population in the sugarcane region of El Salvador has chronic kidney disease?
(a) 1/3.
(b) 1/7.
(c) 1/5.
(d) 1/10.

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

4. Approximately how many square miles were burned by wildfires in California in 2018?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Bill McKibben declare "The End of Nature" (181)?

2. Who wrote The Population Bomb?

3. The Chinese "airpocalypse" of 2013 led to a peak Air Quality Index of what?

4. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to an ill-assorted collection of parts assembled to fufill a particular purpose?

5. What film does the author say "depicts civilization in semi-collapse, but collapsed by a fertility menace" (170)?

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