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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 percentage does grain account for the human diet globally?
(a) 30%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 25%.

2. In 2016, a boy was killed and 20 people were infected by anthrax that was released when retreating permafrost exposed the frozen carcass of what animal?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A reindeer.
(d) A rabbit.

3. According to a 2018 government report, approximately how many people die each year from lacking or contaminated water?
(a) 300,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 150,000.

4. How many mass extinctions has the earth experienced prior to the one we are living through now, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

5. When did the United Nations establish its Framework on Climate Change?
(a) 1992.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1994.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to a 2018 study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, how many American homes and businesses will suffer chronic flooding by 2100?

2. The recent Great Recession (2008) lowered the global GDP by about wht percentage in a onetime shock?

3. How much of the population in the sugarcane region of El Salvador has chronic kidney disease?

4. How many major cities are there currently with average maximum summertime temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or higher?

5. According to the author in "Climate Conflict," "Over the last decade, researchers have even managed to quantify some of the nonobvious relationships between temperature and violence: for every half degree of warming, they say, societies will see" between what percent increase in the likelihood of armed conflict (152)?

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