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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Elements of Chaos, "Plagues of Warming" - "Systems".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does CCS stand for?
(a) Carbon capture and storage.
(b) Climate change standards.
(c) Carbon capture and study.
(d) Climate control standards.

2. Who is cited in Part I: Cascades as the theorist who called climate change a "hyperobject" (17)?
(a) Paul Ehrlich.
(b) Timothy Morton.
(c) Jair Bolsonaro.
(d) Irakli Loladze.

3. Who was elected president of Brazil in 2018?
(a) Michel Terner.
(b) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
(c) Jair Bolsonaro.
(d) Deodoro da Fonseca.

4. What country has the fifth-highest homicate rage in the world today (as of 2018)?
(a) Saudi Arabia.
(b) France.
(c) Guatemala.
(d) The United States.

5. Approximately how many people were killed by the 1918 flu?
(a) 50 million.
(b) 37 million.
(c) 62 million.
(d) 25 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who developed the work "The Great Nutrient Collapse"?

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

3. How long can a person with kidney failure expect to live with dialysis?

4. In 1850, the area of Glacier National Park had 150 glaciers. How many are left today?

5. What term did Wallace Smith Broecker help to popularize, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?

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