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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 is the population of Delhi (as of 2018)?
(a) 14 million.
(b) 13 million.
(c) 26 million.
(d) 45 million.

2. 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 Museum of Modern Art and Trump Tower.
(c) The Empire State Building and the UN Headquarters.
(d) The Getty Museum and Rupert Murdoch's Bel-Air estate.

3. What is the approximate temperture of the greater San Francisco Bay Area currently (as of 2018)?
(a) 11 degrees Celcius.
(b) 12 degrees Celcius.
(c) 15 degrees Celcius.
(d) 13 degrees Celcius.

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

5. Beginning in what year were about a million Syrian refugees unleashed on Europe by a civil war inflamed by climate change, according to the author in Part I: Cascades?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2013.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did carbon emissions grow in the year 2017?

2. What small Northern California town was largely wiped out by the Camp Fire?

3. National Geographic calculated that what percentage of the planet's water is available to fuel and feed its 7 billion people?

4. How many signatories are there on the Paris climate accords (as of the time of the book's publication)?

5. What word from Part I: Cascades refers to the explanation of phenomenon by the purpose they serve rather than by postulated causes?

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