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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. What is the name of Robert Kennedy's memoir of the Cuban missile crisis?
(a) 1969.
(b) Bay of Pigs.
(c) Children of Men.
(d) Thirteen Days.

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

3. How many workers have been seriously injured in the U.S. by heat alone since 1992?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 70,000.
(d) 50,000.

4. What term used in "Storytelling" refers to action taken to prevent disease, especially be specified means or against a specified disease?
(a) Vector proliferation.
(b) Proctologist.
(c) Ellipses.
(d) Prophylaxis.

5. In 2014, a toxic event struck Lake Erie, when fertilizer from farms in Ohio spawned an algae bloom that cut off drinking water for what city?
(a) Hamilton.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Toledo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage does grain account for the human diet globally?

2. What was the population of New Orleans in 1960?

3. In "Hunger," the author gives a basic rule of thumb regarding climate and plants. He states that for staple cereal crops grown at optimal temperature, for every degree of warming, the yields decline by how much?

4. How much did carbon emissions grow in the year 2017?

5. What word from "Storytelling" refers to the process of giving an animal or object human attributes?

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