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

2. The author points out in "Economic Collapse" that "Every round-trip plane ticket from New York to London, keep in mind, costs the Arctic" how many more square meters of ice (147)?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

3. What was the population of New Orleans in 1960?
(a) 600,000.
(b) 2 million.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 700,000.

4. When was David Wallace-Wells's father born?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1943.

5. How many gallons of gasoline were released into Galveston Bay as a result of Hurricane Harvey?
(a) 640,000.
(b) 320,000.
(c) 460,000.
(d) 253,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many people fell ill from cryptosporidium due to an outbreak following a storm in 1993?

2. Approximately how many square miles were burned by wildfires in California in 2018?

3. How many people were evacuated from mainland China due to the Typhoon Mangkhut?

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

5. The author notes in "Systems" that what climate scientists refer to as "systems crises," he refers to as what?

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