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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. Who wrote The Population Bomb?
(a) E. O. Wilson.
(b) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) William Vollmann.
(d) Irakli Loladze.

2. What literary critic wrote "It is easier to imagine the end of the world that to imagine the end of capitalism" (190)?
(a) William Nordhaus.
(b) Amitav Ghosh.
(c) Jair Bolsonaro.
(d) Fredric Jameson.

3. Approximately how many Muslims participate in the hajj each year?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 5 million.
(c) 3 million.
(d) 2 million.

4. What are described by the author as two structures in California that are two quintessential symbols of the imperiousness of American money in "Wildfire"?
(a) The Museum of Modern Art and Trump Tower.
(b) The Empire State Building and the UN Headquarters.
(c) Trump Tower and Sears Tower.
(d) The Getty Museum and Rupert Murdoch's Bel-Air estate.

5. Who wrote The Great Divergence?
(a) Jair Bolsonaro.
(b) Kenneth Pomeranz.
(c) William Nordhaus.
(d) Amitav Ghosh.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much land does Louisiana lose to the sea every hour?

2. What term from "Crisis Capitalism" describes "a preference for algorithmic and other kinds of nonhuman decition making, and also applies to our generations-long deference to market forces as something like an infallible, or at least unbeatable, overseer" (188)?

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

4. What does NOAA stand for?

5. With CO2 at 930 parts per million (more than double where we are today), cognitive ability declines by what percent?

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