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

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?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2000.

3. Approximately how many barrels of oil are burned each day in the summer in Saudi Arabia, mostly to power the nation's air-conditioning?
(a) 800,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 700,000.
(d) 500,000.

4. When was the last time that the atmosphere contained 500 parts per million of carbon?
(a) 12 million years ago.
(b) 16 million years ago.
(c) 4 million years ago.
(d) 9 million years ago.

5. How much of the planet's coal-power capacity does China command?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/5.
(d) 1/4.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hurricane Harvey strike land?

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

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

5. For how many years does Wallace-Wells say his mother has smoked in her lifetime?

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