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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. How many signatories are there on the Paris climate accords (as of the time of the book's publication)?
(a) 195.
(b) 103.
(c) 254.
(d) 232.

2. Approximately how many people die from malaria each year currently (as of 2018)?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 1.5 million.

3. How many workers have been seriously injured in the U.S. by heat alone since 1992?
(a) 80,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 70,000.

4. What small town in Maryland was drowned by a "thousand-year flood" in 2016 (22)?
(a) Ellicott City.
(b) Montague.
(c) Warren.
(d) Wilson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Globally, about what percentage of freshwater is used for food production and agriculture?

2. Where did the U.S experience its most dramatic outbreak of waterborne disease in 1993?

3. The author notes in "Systems" that soldiers returning home from war are estimated to suffer from PTSD at rates between what percentages?

4. When did the United Nations establish its Framework on Climate Change?

5. In "Hunger," the author gives a basic rule of thumb regarding climate and plants. He states that for staple cereal crops grown at optimal temperature, for every degree of warming, the yields decline by how much?

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