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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 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) Prophylaxis.
(d) Ellipses.

2. The Chinese "airpocalypse" of 2013 led to a peak Air Quality Index of what?
(a) 846.
(b) 473.
(c) 993.
(d) 686.

3. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to "the tendency to choose the present option over alternatives" (189)?
(a) Default effect.
(b) Confirmation bias.
(c) The ambiguity effect.
(d) Anthropocentric thinking.

4. Who wrote the book-length essay The Great Derangement?
(a) H. G. Wells.
(b) Jair Bolsonaro.
(c) William Nordhaus.
(d) Amitav Ghosh.

5. What term in "Crisis Capitalism" refers to people seeking "evidence for what we already understand to be true, such as the promise that human life will endure, rather than the cognitive pain of reconceptualizing our world" (188)?
(a) The ambiguity effect.
(b) Anthropocentric thinking.
(c) Confirmation bias.
(d) Default effect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the population of New Orleans in 2005 (prior to Katrina)?

2. In the United States, leaks and theft account for an estimated loss of what percentage of freshwater?

3. How many natural disasters hit the Philippines between 2006 and 2013?

4. How many carbon emissions was China responsible for in 2017?

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?

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