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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 was the population of New Orleans in 2005 (prior to Katrina)?
(a) 700,000.
(b) 630,000.
(c) 530,000.
(d) 480,000.

2. Who developed the work "The Great Nutrient Collapse"?
(a) Irakli Loladze.
(b) William Vollmann.
(c) E. O. Wilson.
(d) Paul Ehrlich.

3. How many people were killed as a result of Hurricane Mitch in Central America?
(a) 11,000.
(b) 23,000.
(c) 8,000.
(d) 5,000.

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

5. According to the author, almost how many people are displace and wandering the planet right now as a result of political and social instability (154)?
(a) 40 million.
(b) 70 million.
(c) 20 million.
(d) 50 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Great Depression dropped global GDP by about what percent?

2. How many climate refugees does the U.N. project there will be by 2050?

3. By what percentage did China's emissions grow in the first three months of 2018?

4. In Minnessota during the 2000s, winter ticks helped drop the moose population by what percentage?

5. When did labor historian Eric Hobsbawm write "Whoever says Industrial Revolution, says cotton" (140)?

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