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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Elements of Chaos, "Heat Death" - "Drowning".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in Part I: Cascades that all mass extinctions aside from the one that killed off the dinosaurs were caused by what?
(a) Extraterrestrial intervention.
(b) Climate change produced by heat storms on the sun.
(c) Asteroids.
(d) Climate change produced by greenhouse gas.

2. Who wrote The Water Will Come?
(a) Irakli Loladze.
(b) Paul Ehrlich.
(c) E. O. Wilson.
(d) Jeff Goodell.

3. How long can a person with kidney failure expect to live with dialysis?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 2 years.

4. Who proposed the term "Half-Earth" (20)?
(a) Gernot Wagner.
(b) E. O. Wilson.
(c) Jair Bolsonaro.
(d) Irakli Loladze.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author asserts in Part I: Cascades that the majority of carbon burning produced by humans has occurred since the premiere of what television show?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. The United Nations estimates that how much of the global population will live in cities by 2050?

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