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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. How much of the population in the sugarcane region of El Salvador has chronic kidney disease?
(a) 1/10.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/5.
(d) 1/7.

2. Who is cited in Part I: Cascades as the theorist who called climate change a "hyperobject" (17)?
(a) Timothy Morton.
(b) Jair Bolsonaro.
(c) Paul Ehrlich.
(d) Irakli Loladze.

3. How many people were evacuated from mainland China due to the Typhoon Mangkhut?
(a) 400,000.
(b) 1.4 million.
(c) 6.3 million.
(d) 2.45 million.

4. When did Hurricane Harvey strike land?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2017.
(c) 2007.
(d) 2012.

5. According to the author in "Hunger," undernourishment in the world's developing countries has dropped from over 30% in 1970 to what percentage today?
(a) 20%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 24%.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. Approximately how many Muslims participate in the hajj each year?

4. Who developed the work "The Great Nutrient Collapse"?

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

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